Friedrich Trendelenburg - Named After Friedrich Trendelenburg

Named After Friedrich Trendelenburg

A number of medical treatments and terminologies have been named after Friedrich Trendelenburg, including:

• Brodie–Trendelenburg percussion test (also accredited to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie) is a test for incompetent valves in superficial veins
• Trendelenburg's cannula: a cannula used during surgery of the larynx to prevent the patient from swallowing blood during surgery involving the head and neck
• Trendelenburg gait: an abnormal gait caused by weakness of the abductor muscles of the lower limb, including the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus muscles.
• Trendelenburg operation: ligation of the great saphenous vein, for the treatment of varicose veins. This term may also apply to pulmonary thrombectomy
• Trendelenburg position, in which the patient is placed on a bed which is put into incline such that the patient's head is lower than his feet
• Trendelenburg's sign: a sign of congenital dislocation of the hip
• Trendelenburg's test: a test for varicose veins as well as a test to assess hip mobility