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Jean Zuléma Amussat
Jean Zuléma Amussat (21 November 1796 – 13 May 1856) was a French surgery, surgeon. Amussat was born in Saint-Maixent-l'École, Saint-Maixent, Deux-Sèvres. He became a renowned physician whose primary contributions were in the field of genitourinary surgery. Most of his work was through a private practice he held in Paris. He is remembered for the eponymous "Amussat's method" or ":wikt:torsion, torsion of the artery, arteries", which is a procedure used to arrest arterial hemorrhage, hemorrhaging. He was also an early practitioner of lithotripsy, which was a "minimally invasive" surgery to crush stones inside the urinary bladder, bladder via the urethra. This operation necessitated use of a recently invented device known as a lithotrite. Amussat has several eponyms related to him: * Amussat's fold: abnormal folds of the membranous urethra at the level of the seminal colliculus. * Amussat's method: torsion of the arteries to prevent arterial hemorrhaging. * Amussat's oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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