Raymond Roy-Camille

Raymond Roy-Camille (born April 25, 1927 in Fort-de-France , Martinique , † July 14, 1994 in Paris ) was a French doctor. As an orthopedist and traumatologist, he was the pioneer in the surgical stabilization of injuries to the spine.

Life

Roy-Camille was the son of a wealthy businessman and nephew of an orthopedic surgeon in Martinique. It was there that his lifelong love of hunting began . After completing his baccalaureate in 1945, he went to Paris and studied pre-clinical studies at the Sorbonne . He completed the clinical part of his studies from 1948 to 1952 as an external employee at the Hôpitaux de Paris . He also stayed there as an assistant doctor (1952-1958). In 1955 he went to anatomy as a research assistant . Under the influence of Robert Merle d'Aubigné and Robert Judet , he decided against visceral surgery and forOrthopedics .

In anatomy, he examined the blood supply of pseudarthroses with Gaston Cordier . With the corresponding doctoral thesis he became in 1957 a doctorate . It was awarded the gold medal and led to new forms of treatment for the (still feared) pseudarthroses. With Cordier he published an atlas with transverse sections of the chest in 1959 . Corresponding imaging only became possible decades later with computed tomography . From 1958 he was chief de clinique of the clinic for pediatric surgery and orthopedics. In 1960 he went to Judet at the Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré in Garches for six years . There he deepened his interest in injuries and bone tumors of the spine . As an Associate Professor (1962–1970) he devoted himself particularly to discoligamentary damage and fractures of the cervical spine . The first screw insertion into a vertebra was born in 1963 out of necessity . With his profound knowledge of anatomy, he recognized the importance of pedicles for spondylodesis .

In 1970 he became head of department for traumatology and orthopedics in Poissy . From there he visited the neurosurgeons Ralph Bingham Cloward in Honolulu and Arthur R. Hodgson in Hong Kong in 1973 . In 1976 he joined André Sicard at the Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière , which was attached to the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1991 . When he died three years later at the age of 67, he left behind his wife Chantal and daughter Julie.

See also : PLIF

Works

• Coupes horizontales du tronc. Atlas anatomique et radiologique à l'usage des chirurgiens et des radiologistes . Masson 1959.
• with Jean-Yves de la Caffinière and Gérard Saillant : Traumatismes du rachis cervical supérieur C1-C2 . Masson 1973.
• Traitement des ostéites selon Papineau . Paris 1977.
• Surgery de l'arthrosis rachidienne et du disque intervertébral; grandes deformations rachidiennes acquises; infections rachidiennes . Masson 1984.
• Rachis cervical supérieur . Masson 1986.
• with Gérard Saillant: Rachis cervical inférieur . Masson 1988.
• Rachis dorsal et lombaire . Masson 1990.
• La Charnière lombo-sacrée . Masson 1992.
• with Carroll A. Laurin and Lee H. Riley: Atlas of Orthopedic Surgery , 3 volumes. CRC press 1989. ISBN 978-0-8151-5344-3 : Masson, Paris 1992.

Awards

• Honorary member of the North American Spine Society

Web links

• Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (French WP)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Who's Who in Orthopedics (GoogleBooks)
2. ↑ JBJS (Am) 1996 ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Dissertation: Étude de la vascularisation des pseudarthroses .
4. ↑ osteosynthesis par voie postérieure of fractures subluxation du rachis dorsal-lombair ., 1978
5. ↑ BnF catalog général