Ulysse Trélat (13 August 1828,
Paris
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– 28 March 1890) was a French
surgeon
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remembered for describing the
Leser–Trélat sign
The Leser–Trélat sign is the explosive onset of multiple seborrheic keratoses (many pigmented skin lesions), often with an inflammation, inflammatory base. This can be a sign of internal malignancy as part of a paraneoplastic syndrome. In addi ...
.
He was the son of an
Army
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physician
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, also named
Ulysse Trélat (1795–1879). He received his education from his father, from
Philippe-Frédéric Blandin,
Auguste Nélaton and
Philibert Joseph Roux. He graduated
Doctor of Medicine
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in 1854, became
prosector in 1855 and
agrégé in 1857. He became surgeon in 1860, chief of surgery at ''Paris Maternité'' in 1864 and professor of clinical surgery at the
Hôpital Necker.
With military physician
Anacharsis Baizeau (1821–1910), the eponymous "Baizeau and Trélat's method" is named, which is a surgical procedure for repair of a clefted
soft palate
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. With surgeon
Pierre Delbet (1861–1925), he published ''Clinique chirurgicale'' (1891).
Pierre Delbet, bibliography
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French surgeons
1828 births
1890 deaths
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