Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu (21 June 1841, in

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(

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) – 26 October 1926, in

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) was a French

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Biography

Beginning in 1863 he was an interne of medicine in Paris, later serving as an aide of

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(1864) and as a

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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

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in surgery with the dissertation ''Des anomalies du testicule'' (

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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

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(1904-1908). 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

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in France, and in 1898, with

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(1860-1912), performing the first nephroureterectomy for upper tract

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cancer.

Written works

He was the author of numerous articles in the fields of surgery and

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. With

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(1861-1957) and others, he published the multi-volume ''Traité de chirurgie clinique et opératoire'' (1901 et seq.). He made significant contributions to

Sigismond Jaccoud Sigismond Jaccoud (20 November 1830 – 26 April 1913) was a Swiss physician. Sigismond Jaccoud was born in 1830 in Geneva, where he went to school and was educated in music and the science of literature. In 1849 he went to Paris to study medic ...

's ''Nouveau dictionnaire de medecine et de chirurgie''. Other publications by Le Dentu include: * ''Traité des maladies des voies urinaires'', 1868-1881 - Diseases of the

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. * ''Contribution à l'histoire de l'extraction des calculs du rein'', 1882 - Contribution to the history of

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extraction. * ''Néphrectomie'', 1885 -

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. * ''Affections chirurgicales des reins, des uretères et des capsules surrénales'', 1889 - Surgical disorders of the

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and adrenals. * ''Du Traitement des affections inflammatoires des annexes de l'utérus'', 1892 - Treatment of inflammatory diseases of the uterine adnexa.IDREF.fr
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