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Henri Albert Hartmann (16 June 1860 – 1 January 1952) was a French
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1860 births 1952 deaths French surgeons {{France-med-bio-stub
Henri Albert Hartmann (16 June 1860 – 1 January 1952) was a French surgeon
In modern medicine, a surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery. Although there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon usually is also a licensed physician or received the same medical training as ...
. He wrote numerous papers on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from war injuries to shoulder dislocations to gastrointestinal cancer. Hartmann is best known for Hartmann's operation
A proctosigmoidectomy, Hartmann's operation or Hartmann's procedure is the surgical resection of the rectosigmoid colon with closure of the anorectal stump and formation of an end colostomy. It was used to treat colon cancer or inflammation (proct ...
, a two-stage colectomy
Colectomy ('' col-'' + '' -ectomy'') is bowel resection of the large bowel ( colon). It consists of the surgical removal of any extent of the colon, usually segmental resection (partial colectomy). In extreme cases where the entire large intestin ...
he devised for colon cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel mo ...
and diverticulitis
Diverticulitis, specifically colonic diverticulitis, is a gastrointestinal disease characterized by inflammation of abnormal pouches—diverticula—which can develop in the wall of the large intestine. Symptoms typically include lower abdominal ...
.
Hartmann Day
Hartmann Day 16 June each year Hartmann Day celebrates the invention by Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann (born 16 June 1860) of the surgical operation that is now known as the Hartmann Procedure that has saved many lives; also the work of those who have performed the operation and of those who have supported patients about to have, having, or have had the operation. Instituted in 2021 to mark one hundred years since publication of the operation.See also
* Hartmann's critical point * Hartmann's mosquito forceps *Hartmann's operation
A proctosigmoidectomy, Hartmann's operation or Hartmann's procedure is the surgical resection of the rectosigmoid colon with closure of the anorectal stump and formation of an end colostomy. It was used to treat colon cancer or inflammation (proct ...
* Hartmann’s pouch
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*Who Named It?
Spanish article about surgeon
1860 births 1952 deaths French surgeons {{France-med-bio-stub