Paul Ferdinand Segond
Paul Ferdinand Segond (1851-1912) was a French Orthopaedic Surgeon.
One of the foremost knee specialists in 19th century France. Most commonly his orthopaedic contributions are often overlooked in deference to his contributions to gynaecological surgery
Gynaecological approach per vagina to remove uterus (pioneer of the trans-vaginal hysterectomy), myomas and carcinomatous lesion.
Eponymously affiliated with Segond fracture he first described in 1879
Biography
- Born on May 8, 1851, in Paris
- 1878 – Professor of Anatomy
- 1880 – MD, Thèse présentée au concours de l’agrégation ‘Cure radicale des hernies‘
- 1883 – Chirurgien des Hôpitaux, Professor agrégé at Pitié-Salpétriere hopital
- 1905 – Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris, succeeded Paul Jules Tillaux (1834-1904)
- 1905 – Member of the French National Academy of Medicine
- Died on October 27, 1912, in Paris
Medical Eponyms
Segond fracture (1879)
Avulsion fracture of the lateral margin of the lateral tibial plateau. Segond fracture has significant association with anterior cruciate ligament and meniscal injuries. In 1879 Segond repeated the work of Bonnet and demonstrated (in 17 of 38 experiments with cadavers) that internal rotation of the tibia with the knee in flexion results in tension on the lateral joint capsule of the knee at its midpoint where a pearly, fibrous, resistant band of tissue, the lateral capsular ligament (LCL), produces an avulsion fracture of the lateral tibia.
Segond described a small bony avulsion on the lateral tibial plateau and commented that:
…the lesion is pathognomonic of torsion of the knee in internal rotation and slight flexion of the lower leg and is associated with rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament
Segond 1879
Major Publications
- Segond P. Recherches cliniques et expérimentales sur les épanchements sanguins du genou par entorse. Progrès Médical 1879; 16: 297–299, 319–321, 340–341 [Segond fracture]
- Segond P. Des abcès chauds de la prostate et du phlegmon périprostatique. G. Masson 1880
- Baudron E, Segond P. De l’hystérectomie vaginale: appliquée au traitement chirurgical des lésions bilatérales des annexes de l’utérus (opération de Péan) – étude basée sur les 200 premières observations du Docteur Paul Segond. Paris: Société d’éditions scientifiques 1894
- Segond P. Traitement des grossesses extra-utérines. Maretheux. 1898
- Schaeffer O, Segond P, Lenoir O. Atlas-manuel de technique gynecologique. 1905
References
- Richelot. Paul Segond, 1851-1912: discours prononcés à ses obsèques
- Segond P. Titres et travaux scientifiques. [Titles and publications] 1901
- Hunter TB, Peltier LF, Lund PJ. Radiologic history exhibit. Musculoskeletal eponyms: who are those guys? RadioGraphics 2000; 20: 819-36.
- Peschanski N, Cadogan M. Sixteen French doctors (1906). LITFL
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