Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu Explained

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Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu (21 June 1841, in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) – 26 October 1926, in Paris) was a French surgeon.

Biography

Beginning in 1863 he was an interne of medicine in Paris, later serving as an aide of anatomy (1864) and as a prosector to the medical faculty (1867). In 1867 he received his doctorate with a thesis on venous circulation of the foot and leg, two years later obtaining his agrégation in surgery with the dissertation Des anomalies du testicule (testicular anomalies).

In 1872 he became a surgeon to the "Bureau central", followed by a promotion as chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1876. Subsequently, he was appointed professor to the medical faculty in Paris; second chair of clinical surgery at Hôpital Necker (1890-1904), followed by an assignment as chair of clinical surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu (1904-1908).[1]

Le Dentu is remembered for contributions made in the field of urosurgery; in 1875 being credited with achieving the first recorded occurrence of cure by nephrectomy in France,[2] and in 1898, with Joaquín Albarrán (1860-1912), performing the first nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial cancer.[3]

Written works

He was the author of numerous articles in the fields of surgery and urology. With Pierre Delbet (1861-1957) and others, he published the multi-volume Traité de chirurgie clinique et opératoire (1901 et seq.).[4] [5] He made significant contributions to Sigismond Jaccoud's Nouveau dictionnaire de medecine et de chirurgie.[6] Other publications by Le Dentu include:

Notes and References

  1. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=105693 Societes savantes
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xp0EAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Le+Dentu%22+nephrectomy&pg=PA58 London Medical Record
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=q19Iox_cJNUC&dq=%22Le+Dentu%22+nephroureterectomy&pg=PA369 Urothelial Tumors
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/490515715 WorldCat Search
  5. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/jean-francois-auguste-le-dentu/ Enciclopedia Treccani
  6. http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Le+Dentu,+Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois-Auguste Pagel: Biographical Dictionary
  7. http://www.idref.fr/068860919 IDREF.fr