Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe (17 December 1799 – 19 April 1867) was a French surgeon. He was born at Matignon, studied medicine at

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, and in 1830 became surgeon at the

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. He was elected to the

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in 1840 and to the

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in 1856. Jobert was a brilliant and resourceful operator, best known for his masterly use of ''autoplastie'', the repair of diseased parts by healthy neighboring tissue, and especially for the operation which he styled ''élitroplastie'', an autoplastic cure of vaginal fistula. He wrote: * ''Traité théorique et pratique des maladies chirurgicales du canal intestinal'' (1829) * ''Etudes sur le système nerveux'' (1838) * ''Traité de chirurgie plastique'' (1849) * ''De la réunion en chirurgie'' (1864)

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* Jobert's fossa – the fossa in the popliteal region bounded above by the

adductor magnus Adductor may refer to: * One of the anatomical terms of motion Motion, the process of movement, is described using specific anatomical terms. Motion includes movement of organs, joints, limbs, and specific sections of the body. The terminolo ...

and below by the gracilis and sartorius; best seen when the knee is bent and the

thigh In human anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip ( pelvis) and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb. The single bone in the thigh is called the femur. This bone is very thick and strong (due to the high proportion of ...

strongly rotated outward * Jobert's operation – autoplastic closure of as

vesicovaginal fistula Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) is a subtype of female urogenital fistula (UGF). Presentation Vesicovaginal fistula, or VVF, is an abnormal fistulous tract extending between the bladder ('' vesica'') and the vagina that allows the continuous involu ...

* Jobert's suture – an interrupted suture of various kinds for a divided intestine, the upper end being invaginated into the lower.

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