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Common Eponyms in Rheumatology

Prakash Pispati, MD  |  Issue: October 2012  |  

  • Behcet’s syndrome
  • Caplan syndrome
  • Charcot’s joints
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome
  • Cogan’s syndrome
  • Crohn’s disease
  • DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis
  • Dupuytren’s contracture
  • Farber’s disease
  • Felty’s syndrome
  • Francoise syndrome
  • Gaucher’s disease
  • Handigodu syndrome
  • Heberden’s nodes
  • Henoch-Schönlein purpura
  • Hoffa’s disease
  • Hughes Syndrome (Antiphospholipid syndrome)
  • Jaccoud’s syndrome
  • Kashin-Beck disease
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Leri’s pleonosteosis
  • Libman Sachs endocarditis
  • Lyme arthritis
  • Lofgren syndrome
  • Morton’s Metatarsalgia
  • Osgood-Schlatter’s disease
  • Osler’s nodes
  • Paget’s disease
  • Pott’s disease
  • Reiter’s disease
  • Sever’s disease
  • Sjogren’s syndrome
  • Still’s disease
  • Sudeck’s atrophy
  • Sweet’s syndrome
  • Takayasu’s disease
  • Thiemann’s disease
  • Tietze syndrome
  • Wegener’s granulomatosis (Granulomatosis with poliangitis)
  • Weil’s disease
  • Werner’s syndrome
  • Wilson’s disease
  • Whipple’s disease

 

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