César Roux

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César Roux (born March 23, 1857 in Mont-la-Ville , † December 21, 1934 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss surgeon .

Life

César Roux grew up as the eighth of eleven children of a Huguenot-born teacher in the village of Mont-la-Ville in western Switzerland . After graduating from high school in Lausanne in 1875, he studied medicine in Lausanne and Bern . During his studies he worked among other things as an assistant for pathology at Theodor Langhans . In 1880 he completed his medical studies with the state examination and a doctorate on the subject of "Contributions to the knowledge of the anus muscles in humans". 1880–1883 ​​he was an assistant in the surgical department of the Inselspital Bern with Theodor Kocher . In September 1883 he opened a general medical practice in Lausanne. In addition to his practice, he gave courses in operative medicine at the Lausanne Academy and worked as a substitute in the surgery department of the Cantonal Hospital, where he was appointed chief physician in 1887. In 1884 he married the Russian-born medical student Anna Begoune. In 1890 he became associate professor and in 1893 full professor at the newly founded University of Lausanne . There he worked as a globally respected surgeon until his retirement from the clinic in 1926; He declined calls to other universities. César Roux died on December 21, 1934 during an office hour in his private practice in Lausanne. He was buried in his home village of Mont-la-Ville.

One of César Roux's students is the surgeon and nursing reformer in Switzerland, Hans Martz (1888–1954).

Services

In 1892, César Roux first performed the Roux-Y-anastomosis, later named after him (Roux's Y-loop, Roux 'operation, French Roux-en-Y), a Y-shaped anastomosis of an organ (Roux's first operation the stomach) with a disused jejunal loop . In 1906 he operated on a twelve-year-old patient who was unable to eat because of a burn in the lower esophagus; With the esophagojejunogastrostomosis performed for the first time, he replaced part of the esophagus with part of the small intestine. In 1926 he succeeded in the first successful removal of a pheochromocytoma .

In 1903 César Roux was made an honorary citizen of Lausanne; In 1929 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris at the same time as Albert Einstein.

Works

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the human anus . In: Archives for microscopic anatomy . Vol. 19, 1881, pp. 721-733.
  • Habituelle de la rotule dislocation: traitemente operatoire . In: Revue de Chirurgie . Vol. 8, 1888, pp. 682-689.
  • Gastrointestinal surgery . In: Revue de Chirurgie . Vol. 13, 1893, pp. 402-403.
  • L'oesophago-jéjuno-gastrostomose, nouvelle operation pour rétrécissement infranchissable de l'oesophage . In: La Semaine Médicale . Vol. 27, 1907, pp. 37-40.

literature

  • Sameer Dhayat; JC Renggli et al. a .: "On the 150th birthday of César Roux (1857–1918) - memory of the life and work of an important Kocher student". In: Der Chirurg , Vol. 78, No. 2, 2007 ISSN  0009-4722 , pp. 155-160 ( PDF ).
  • Jean-Nicholas Vauthey; Guy J. Maddern; Philippe Gertsch: "César Roux - Swiss pioneer in surgery". In: Surgery , Vol. 112, No. 5, 1992 ISSN  0039-6060 , pp. 946-950
  • Roland von der Mühl: Contribution à l'étude des paragangliomes de la surrénale. Dissertation Lausanne 1928
  • Roux, César; Baudraz, Benjamin (ed.): "Un si petit homme": lettres à Anna Bégoune et à quelques autres correspondants . Éditions dén bas, Lausanne 2003, ISBN 2-8290-0264-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Hans Martz . In: Hubert Kolling (ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history “Who was who in nursing history” , volume seven, hpsmedia Hungen 2015, p. 181 f.
  2. ↑ year of death in the original incorrect; Erratum in Der Chirurg , Vol. 78, No. 5, 2007, p. 427
personal data
SURNAME Roux, César
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-la-Ville
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1934
Place of death Lausanne