DOI: 10.1148/rg.262055130
Eponyms in Radiology of the Digestive Tract: Historical Perspectives and Imaging Appearances
Part 2. Liver, Biliary System, Pancreas, Peritoneum, and Systemic Disease1
Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD,
Charles A. Rohrmann, Jr, MD and
Joel E. Lichtenstein, MD
1 From the Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Box 357115, 1959 NE Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195-7115. Presented as an education exhibit at the 2004 RSNA Annual Meeting. Received April 8, 2005; revision requested May 4 and received June 15; accepted June 17. All authors have no financial relationships to disclose.

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Figure 1. Caroli disease. T-tube cholangiogram shows focal areas of saccular ectasia of the intrahepatic bile ducts. The extrahepatic bile duct is normal.
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Figure 2. Jacques Caroli (19021979). (From the National Library of Medicine, Washington, DC.)
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Figure 3. Klatskin tumor (cholangiocarcinoma). Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram shows mild dilatation of the intrahepatic bile ducts and an irregular stricture (arrow) at the bifurcation of the main intrahepatic bile ducts.
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Figure 4. Gerald Klatskin (19101986). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 5. Spiral valves of Heister. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram shows normal cystic duct mucosal folds (arrow). * = gallbladder.
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Figure 6. Lorenz Heister (16831758). (From the Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.)
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Figure 7a. Gallbladder adenomyomatous hyperplasia. (a) Abdominal radiograph shows round calcifications (arrow) representing calculi in Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses in the region of the gallbladder. (b) US image demonstrates gallbladder wall thickening with intramural echogenic foci (long arrow) and associated "ring-down" artifact (short arrows).
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Figure 7b. Gallbladder adenomyomatous hyperplasia. (a) Abdominal radiograph shows round calcifications (arrow) representing calculi in Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses in the region of the gallbladder. (b) US image demonstrates gallbladder wall thickening with intramural echogenic foci (long arrow) and associated "ring-down" artifact (short arrows).
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Figure 8. Karl von Rokitansky (18041878). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 9. Carl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (18661942). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 10. Ruggero Oddi (18641913). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 11. Abraham Vater (16841751). (From the Portraitsammlungen der Herzogs August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany.)
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Figure 12. Pancreatic ducts of Wirsüng and Santorini. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram demonstrates normal filling of the ducts of Wirsüng (arrowhead) and Santorini (arrow).
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Figure 13. Copper plate engraving of Wirsüngs original description of the main pancreatic duct (Padova, Italy, 1642). (From the library of the Università deglis Studi di Padova.)
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Figure 14. Giovanni Domenico Santorini (16811737). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 15. Rigler sign (double wall sign). Supine radiograph of the abdomen shows loops of bowel outlined by free intraperitoneal gas (arrows).
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Figure 16. Leo G. Rigler (18961979). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 17. Crohn disease. Image from a small bowel barium examination shows a long stricture (arrow) and an intramural tract (arrowhead).
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Figure 18. Burrill Bernard Crohn (18841983). (Courtesy of the Mount Sinai Archives, New York, NY.)
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Figure 19. Whipple disease. Image from a small bowel barium examination shows mildly thickened and nodular folds.
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Figure 20. George Hoyt Whipple (18781976). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 21. Behçet disease involving the colon. Magnified image from an air-contrast barium enema examination shows segmental areas with ulcers (arrowhead) and inflammatory polyps (arrow).
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Figure 23. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Image from a small bowel barium examination shows two large filling defects (arrows) representing hamartomatous polyps.
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Figure 24. Harold J. Jeghers (19041990). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 25. Esophageal Kaposi sarcoma in a man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Air-contrast esophagogram shows a 2-cm smooth filling defect (arrow).
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Figure 26. Moritz Kaposi (18371902). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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Figure 27. Megaesophagus from chronic Chagas disease. Single-contrast esophagogram shows a markedly dilated esophagus with mucosal irregularity. The esophageal lumen tapers at the esophagogastric junction.
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Figure 28. Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas (18791934). (From the National Library of Medicine.)
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