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Léon Dufourmentel

Born  1884
Died  1957

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    French surgeon, Born 1884; died July 29, 1957.

    Biography of Léon Dufourmentel

    In France, Leon Dufourmentel is remembered as the only surgeon practising plastic surgery after World War I. He was a specialist in maxillo-facial surgery and head of the department of reconstructive surgery.

    He was the son of a merchant. He interned at the Paris hospitals and later head of the clinic of the medical feculty in Paris. He was also head of a department of reconstructive surgery.

    During World War I he established a unit for maxillo-facial surgery. In 1918 he devised the graft technique named for him, Greffe Dufourmentel. He was the son-in-law of the anatomist Pierre Sebileau (1860-1953) and the father of the plastic surgeon Claude Dufourmentel (born 1915)

    Leon Dufourmentel said in 1948, "...If I went to Picasso for my portrait, he would probably make me a monster and I should be pleased because it would be worth a million francs. But if Picasso came to me with a facial injury and I made him into a monster, aha, he might not be so pleased."

    Bibliography

    • La loi de Semon-Rosenbach dans les paralysies récurrentielles.
      Paris 1914. 114 pages.
    • La Chirurgie faciale aux Etats-Unis. 1926.
    • Chirurgie d'urgence des blessures de la face et du cou.
      With Flavien Bennet-Roy. 1918.
    • Diagnostic, traitement et expertises des séquelles des blessures et des accidents. 3, Diagnostic, traitement et expertise des séquelles des blessures et des accidents des régions maxillo-faciales.
      With Léon Frison. Paris : Librairie J.B. Baillière et Cie, 1922. 151 pages.

    • Le rictus - journal humoristique médical - N°04, septembre 1924. Biographie du docteur Leon Dufourmentel par Portmann, biographie du docteur Georges Portmann (de Bordeaux) par L. Dufourmentel. Georges Portman, 1890-1985.
    • Chirurgie de l'articulation temporo-maxillaire.
      Préface du professeur Pierre Sebileu.
      Paris : Masson, 1929. 228 pages.
    • Chirurgie réparatrice et correctrice des téguments et des formes.
      Paris : Masson et Cie, 1939. 407 pages. 2nd edition in 1950.
    • Introduction à la chirurgie constructive : Essai sur l'Art et la Chirurgie.
      Paris : La Jeune Parque, 1946
    • Les complexes esthétiques et la chirurgie. 1957.
    • [Death of Léon Dufourmentel, titular member (1884-1957).]
      [Article in French, no authors listed]
      Mémoires de l'Académie de chirurgie, Paris, October 7-November 30, 1957, 83 (25-26): 794-795.
    • A. Tallent:
      [Closure of a pharyngostoma with a bipedicled flap of scalp in the Leon Dufourmentel chin-strap.]
      Annales de chirurgie plastique, Paris, June 1963, 8: 123-127.

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