Émile Forgue

Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860, in Briançon 1 February 1943, in Mirepoix) was a French surgeon.

In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres.[1] In 1896 he obtained his agrégation for surgery, and later on, became a professor of operative medicine (1891–1930) and clinical surgery (from 1895) at Montpellier. In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.[2][3]

With urologists Leopold Ritter von Dittel and Felix Legueu, the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation" is named, a procedure used for closure of vesicovaginal fistulae.[4]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Most widely held works by Emile Auguste Forgue WorldCat Identities
  2. Émile Forgue (1860-1943) data.bnf.fr.
  3. Forgue, Émile Auguste Sociétés savantes de France
  4. A surgical technic deserving reconsideration for closure of vesicovaginal fistulas Rev Chir Oncol Radiol O R L Oftalmol Stomatol Chir. 1979 Mar-Apr;28(2):103-10.
  5. Most widely held works by Emile Forgue WorldCat Identities
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