César Roux (23 March 1857, in

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– 21 December 1934, in

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) was a Swiss surgeon, who described the Roux-en-Y procedure. He studied medicine at the

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, where his influences included

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and

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. Following graduation in 1880, he remained in Bern as an assistant to

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. In 1887 he became chief of both surgical departments at the cantonal hospital in Lausanne.César Roux
at Who Named It In 1885 he was named an associate professor of

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at the Academy of Lausanne, and when the academy achieved university status in 1890, he was appointed director of the surgical clinic at the faculty of medicine.Roux, César
Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse In 1926, Roux performed the first successful surgical removal of a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roux, Cesar Swiss surgeons 1857 births 1934 deaths Academic staff of the University of Lausanne University of Bern alumni People from the canton of Vaud