Frequency of eponyms with the surname Adamkiewicz and noneponymous alternatives for naming the main artery of the spinal cord in articles indexed in the Medline database at the beginning of the 21st century
Abstract
Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz, born in 1850 in Żerków near Poznań, studied medicine in Königsberg, Breslau and Würzburg, graduated in 1872 from Würzburg and offered himself to pathology in Königsberg, Berlin and, from 1879, as professor of general and experimental pathology in Cracow. There he wrote his most important works on pathological anatomy of the central nervous system, especially on the variability of its blood supply (Die Blutgefässe des menschlichen Rückenmarkes I.
Die Gefässe der Rückenmarksubstanz, Wien 1881; II. Die Gefässe der Rückenmarksoberfläche, Wien 1882; Der Blutkreislauf des menschlichen Rückenmarkes, Berlin 1886).
He discovered and described the great radicular artery as the main artery of the spinal cord of great functional and clinical importance. In 1891 he published some very controversial theories, in consequence of what he must eventually move to Vienna in 1892 to terminate his career as ordinarian at the Jewish Hospital.
In 1921 he died in Vienna