 Gerota researched the anatomy and physiology of the bladder and appendix, and developed a method for injecting lymphatic vessels known in textbooks as the "Gerota method".The renal fascia is sometimes called "Gerota's fascia" or "Gerota's capsule" after him.Also, the "Albarran-Ormond syndrome" (an inflammatory retroperitoneal fibrosis, named after urologists Joaquín Albarrán and John Kelso Ormond) is also known as "Gerota’s syndrome" or "Gerota’s fasciitis".