Jean-Gaspard Blaise Goyrand
Jean-Gaspard Blaise Goyrand (1803 – 1866) was a French surgeon.
Goyrand was a prominent French provincial surgeon. He clarified the anatomy of the many varieties of distal radius fractures, including epiphyseal separations (epiphysiolysis) and is eponymously linked with the Goyrand Fracture (France)
Goyrand challenged the assertions of Dupytren and his contracture.
Dr. Paulin Silbert (Goyrand’s son-in-law) posthumously collated his publications into a volume published by Masson in 1870
Biography
- Born 3 February 1803 Aix-en-Provence, France. Son of the artist Antoine-Gabriel Goyrand (1754-1826)
- 1821 – Graduated from Aix
- 1824-1828 Assistant surgeon, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris under Guillaume Dupuytren
- 1828 – Chirurgien chef interne de l’hopital de Aix
- 1838-1848 maire adjoint four times and Médecin Inspecteur des Eaux Thermales
- 1862 – Membre Associés National de Académie Impériale de Medecine (rare for a provincial surgeon to attain)
- Chief of surgery at the hospital in the city of Marseille
- Died 23 June 1866
Medical Eponyms
Goyrand Fracture (1832)
Extra-articular fracture of the distal radius with associated palmar (volar) angulation of the distal fracture fragment. The term Goyrand fracture is still used in France to describe a ‘reversed Colles fracture‘, though more commonly referred to as a Smith fracture
1832 – Goyrand noted that a fracture of the distal end of the forearm could be displaced palmarly as well as dorsally
Original
English
Les fractures de l’extrémité inférieure du radius peuvent avoir lieu dans différens points de la longueur de cette extrémité. Elles ont, en général, une direction oblique de haut en bas, et de la face dorsale à la face palmaire. J’ai cependant sous les yeux deux pièces pathologiques qui me présentent cette fracture avec une direction opposée
The fractures of the lower extremity of the radius can occur at different points along the length of this extremity. They trace, in general, an oblique direction from superior to inferior, and from the dorsal to the palmar face. However I have beneath my eyes two pathological specimens that present this fracture in the opposite direction…
Dupuytren contracture (1835) – Goyrand presented at l’Academie Royale de Médecine, claiming Dupuytren was in error on three points:
- Dissections showed bands flexing fingers and the thumb, beyond the normally accepted limits of the palmar aponeurosis
- A longitudinal incision allowed better healing and even some fascial excision (possibly the first fasciectomy)
- The condition was more hereditary than occupational in origin
Major Publications
- Goyrand G. Memoirs sur les fractures de l’extrémité inferieure de radius, qui simulent les luxations di poignet. Gazette médicale de Paris. 1832; 3: 664-667 [Goyrand Fracture]
- Goyrand G. Nouvelles recherches sur la rétraction permanente des doigts. Mémoires de l’Académie royale de médecine, 1833, 3: 489-496. [Critique: Sanson J, Breschet G. 496-500] [Discussion following critique reported in Gazette médicale de Paris, 1834;2s(2):219 with comments by Barthélemey, Cloquet, Dupuy, Lisfranc, Martin-Solon and Velpeau…]
- Goyrand G. De la rétraction permanente des doigts. Gazette médicale de Paris. 1835; 2s(3): 481-486. [Dupuytren contracture]
- Goyrand G. De la fracture par contre-coup de l’extrémité inferieure du radius. Journal hebdomadaire des Progrès des Sciences médicales. 1836;1:161. [Review in Gazette médicale de Paris. 1836; 233-234]
- Goyrand JGB. Clinique chirurgicale. [Surgical Clinic of Dr. Goyrand (Aix): Memoirs and observations of surgery, collected and annotated by Dr. P. Silbert] Masson and son. Paris, 1870.
References
Biography
- Charpin J. Goyrand, d’Aix, un académicien de province au XIX siècle (1803-1866) [Goyrand, of Aix, a provincial academician in the 19th century (1803-1866)]. Bull Acad Natl Med. 1982 Jun;166(6):787-90.
- Hueston J, Latil F. Goyrand of Aix. Ann Chir Main Memb Super. 1992; 11(5): 346-348.
- Latil F, Hueston JT. J.G.B. Goyrand (1803-1866), chirurgien et académicien Aixois [Goyrand J.G.B (1803-1866), surgeon and academician from Aix en Provence]. Ann Chir Plast Esthet. 1992; 37(5): 574-578.
Eponymous terms
- Thurston AJ. ‘Ao’ or eponyms: the classification of wrist fractures. ANZ J Surg. 2005; 75(5): 347-55.
- Vrebos J. Dupuytren’s Contracture: an Inaccurate Denomination. Acta Chirurgica Belgica 2009; 109(5): 657-667
eponym
the person behind the name
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