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Jacques Gilles Maisonneuve

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update September 30, 2019

Jacques Gilles Maisonneuve (1809-1897)

Jacques Gilles Maisonneuve (1809 – 1897) was a French Surgeon.

A student of Guillaume Dupuytren…and apparently equally polemic. Maisonneuve improved the internal urethrotome for urethral stricture management by adding a filiform guide (1848, 1879).

First to describe external rotation as a mechanism of production of ankle fractures. Eponymously associated with the Maisonneuve fracture which he described in 1840 Recherches sur la fracture du péroné‘.


Biography

  • Born 10 November 1809 Nantes, France
  • 1829 – Surgical studies in Paris under Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835)
  • 1835 – MD. Thesis: ‘Propositions sur quelques points d’anatomie de physiologie et de pathologie‘
  • 1842 – Surgeon des hôpitaux de Paris including Bicêtre, Cochin and Pitié
  • 1862 – Surgeon at l’Hôtel-Dieu, Paris
  • 1863 – Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur par décret
  • Founder of la Société de chirurgie
  • Died 9 April 1897 Missillac, France

Medical Eponyms

Maisonneuve fracture (1840)

The Maisonneuve fracture is a spiral fracture of the upper third of the fibula associated with a tear of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis and the interosseous membrane. There is an associated fracture of the medial malleolus or rupture of the deep deltoid ligament.

Rupture of the stabilizing ligaments of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis will result in widening of the ankle mortise on radiographs. Additional findings such as avulsion fracture of the medial or posterior malleoli, or tear of the deltoid ligaments may also be present


Controversies

Correct name: Jacques-Gilles Thomas Maisonneuve. Often referenced incorrectly as ‘Jules Germain François Maisonneuve‘; or assigned the designation ‘M.J.G Maisonneuve‘ here the M is formal designation for ‘Monsieur le Docteur‘ and JG for Jacques-Gilles. Maisonneuve rarely used his additional name of Thomas


Major Publications

  • Maisonneuve JG. Le périoste et ses maladies. 1839
  • Maisonneuve JG. Recherches sur la fracture du péroné. Archives générales de médecine 1840;7:165-187 and 433-473 [Maisonneuve fracture]
  • Maisonneuve JG. Traité pratique des maladies vénériennes. Paris: Labé. 1860
  • Maisonneuve JG. Mémoire sur une nouvelle méthode de cathétérisme et sur son application à la cure radicale et instantanée des rétrécissements de l’urètre. Paris: Remquet. 1855
  • Maisonneuve JG. Mémoire sur la ligature extemporanée. Paris: Labé. 1860
  • Maisonneuve JG. Clinique chirurgicale. Tome Premiere. Paris: Savy. 1864
  • Maisonneuve JG. Clinique chirurgicale. Tome Second. Paris: Savy. 1864
  • Maisonneuve JG. Mémoire sur les intoxications chirurgicales. Paris: Raçon. 1867
  • Maisonneuve JG. Méthode d’aspiration continue et ses avantages pour la cure des grandes amputations. Paris: Raçon. 1867
  • Maisonneuve JG. Derniers perfectionnements apportés à l’uréthrotomie interne pour la cure radicale et instantanée des rétrécissements de l’urèthre: Extrait des leçons cliniques professées à l’Hôtel-Dieu. 1879

References

  • Hanson JA, Fotoohi M, Wilson AJ. Maisonneuve fracture of the fibula: implications for imaging ankle injury. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1999; 173(3): 702.
  • Maisonneuve JG: Portraits and Images. Banque d’images et de portraits. Biusante
  • Eponymythology: Eponymous ankle and talus injuries. LITFL

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