Odilon Lannelongue

Odilon Lannelongue

Odilon Marc Lannelongue (December 4, 1840 – December 22, 1911) was a French surgeon who was a native of Castéra-Verduzan. In 1867 he earned his medical doctorate at Paris, where he was a student of Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (1808–1872) and Auguste Nélaton (1807–1873). In 1883 he became a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, and in 1895 became a member of the Academy of Sciences. Later in life he became interested in politics, and in 1906 was a senator from the department of Gers.

Lannelongue is remembered for his work involving bone diseases, especially osteomyelitis and bone tuberculosis. In 1892 he performed the first craniectomy for craniosynostosis, which involved the correction of a sagittal synostosis. He is also credited for introducing a method for treatment of synovial tuberculosis through the use of chloride of zinc injections.

In 1911 he founded the Médaille internationale de chirurgie (Foundation Lannelongue) in memory of his wife Marie Lannelongue, (née Cibiel) who was a nurse during the Franco-Prussian War. This award is issued every five years by the Académie nationale de chirurgie (National Academy of Surgery). During his medical career, Lannelongue had several famous persons as patients, including Léon Gambetta, Sarah Bernhardt and Félix Faure.

• Associated eponyms:
• Lannelongue's foramina: Also known as foramina venarum minimarum, which are foramina of the smallest veins of the heart.
• Lannelongue's ligaments: Also known as sternopericardiac ligaments.

References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.
• Odilon Marc Lannelongue @ Who Named It

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Name	Lannelongue, Odilon
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Date of birth	December 4, 1840
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Date of death	December 22, 1911
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