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Paul Jules Tillaux
French surgeon, born December 8, 1834, Aunay-sur-Odon, département Calvados; died late October, 1904.
Associated eponyms:
Chaput's tubercle
The anterior tubercle of the tibia.
Cooper's disease
A disease characterised by multiple, benign cystic growths in the breast.
Tillaux' apparatus
A device used to reduce and maintain femoral diaphysis fractures in constant steady extension.
Tillaux' fracture
A fracture of the anteriolateral tibial epiphysis that is commonly seen in adolescents.
Tillaux' manoeuvre
Manoeuvre intended to demonstrate the presence of a breast tumour adherent to the muscle pectoralis major.
Tillaux' sign
The presence of a resonant area between the pubic bone and a tumour is indicative of a tumour being mesenteric.
Tillaux' spiral
An imaginary line connecting the insertions of the recti muscles of the eye.
Tillaux-Chaput fracture
Avulsion fracture of anterior tibial margin by the anterior tibio- fibular ligament.
Biography:
Paul Jules Tillaux studied in Caen and Paris. In 1857 he became an intern in Paris and in 1862 doctor of medicine. In 1863 he became hospital surgeon, 1866 agrégé, 1890 professor of surgery, 1879 member of the Académie de médecine. He was also director of the anatomical amphitheatre of the Paris hospitals
Bibliography:
- Structure de la glande sublinguale. Doctoral thesis, 1862.
- Des conduits excréteurs de la glande lacrymale chez l’homme et quelques vertébrés.
- Des sinus de la face.
- De l’urethrotomie. Concours-thesis for agrégation, 1863.
- Des affections chirurgicales des nerfs.
Concours-thesis for agrégation, 1866.
- De la trépanation du rachis à la suite des fractures de la colonne vertébrale.
Bulletin général de thérapeutique médicale et chirurgicale, Paris, 1868.
- Luxation spontanée de la sixième vertèbre cervicale sur la septième.
Bulletin de la Société de chirurgie de Paris, 1868.
- Plaie non pénétronte du coueur. Séjour d’une tige métallique longue de 16 centimètres, large de 2 milim., pendant treize mois, dans la cavité thoracique.
Bulletin de la Société de chirurgie de Paris, 1868.
- Traité d’anatomie topographique avec applications à la chirurgie.
2 volumes, 1875-1877.
- Recherches cliniques et expériment. sur les fractures malléolaires. 1872.
- Recherches experiment. sur le mécanisme de la production des luxations coxo-fémorales en arrière.
- Considérations sur le traitement de l’anévrysme diffus. 1878.
- Traité du diagnostic chirurgical.
- Traité de chirurgie clinique. 3 volumes, Paris, 1887, 1889.
- Bandages en général.
Bulletin général de thérapeutique médicale et chirurgicale, Paris, 1866.
- Brayers. Bulletin de la Société de chirurgie de Paris, 1868.
- Lombes.
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales, Paris.
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