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Maxime Ménard
French radiologist and medical exper, born 1872, Saint-Mihiel; died August 7, 1926, Paris.
Associated eponyms:
Lannelongue's bed
A special bed used for treatment of children with coxalgia.
Shenton's line
A radiographic line formed by the top of the obturator foramen and the inner side of the neck of the femur.
Biography:
Maxime Ménard worked as externe in the electrotherapeutical laboratory at the Charité, where he also devoted himself to the new science of radiology. He was preparator at Hôpital St.-Louis, later at Hôpital Trousseau. In 1909 he assumed leadership of the electroradiological laboratory at Hôpital Cochin. He was a distinguished radiologist, and also a higly treasured expert in forensic medicine. He died already in 1926, a victim of X-rays.
Bibliography:
- Le bassin normal en radiographie. Paris, 1908.
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