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René Fontaine
French surgeon, born June 5, 1899, Bischtroff-sur-Sarre (Alsace-Lorraine); Died November 23, 1979, Strasbourg.
Associated eponyms:
Aron's reaction
Complicated serological experimental cancer test in test animals using patient’s urine.
Fontaine's stages
Stages for blood-flow insufficiency in periperheral artery occlusive disease.
Fontaine-Aron-Buck test
Serological cancer test based on the principle that when an antigen derived form the urine of a cancer carrier is brought together with the serum-antibody of a person sick with cancer, a darkening (Trübung) is formed.
Biography:
René Fontaine studied medicine in Strasbourg and became a pupil of René Leriche (1879-1955); with Leriche, he published (among other things) about the aetiology of peptic ulcers, the role of mucus, and about the pathology of blood vessels. In 1941, he succeeded Leriche in the chair of clinical surgery at the University of Strassbourg. Professor Fontaine retired in 1969.
We thank Isabella Friedlein for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- René Leriche (1879-1955), René Fontaine, S. M. Dupertuis:
Arterectomy. Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Chicago, 1937, 64: 149-155.
Arterectomy in arterial thrombosis.
- M. Kim:
René Fontaine; 1899-1979.
Journal des maladies vasculaires, Paris, 1980, 5 (3): 161-163.
- Pierre Wertheimer:
Éloge de Rene Fontaine 1899-1979. [Eulogy of Rene Fontaine, 1899-1979]
Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine, Paris, June 1981, 165 (6): 691-696.
- A. Coito, A. Franco:
[A moment in the history of angiology: the tribute of Joao Cid Dos Santos to Rene Fontaine]
Journal des maladies vasculaires, Paris, 1986, 11, Supplement B: 94-96.
(Joăo Cid dos Santos, 1907-1975)
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