René Le Fort (30 March 1869 – 30 March 1951) was a French surgeon from Lille known for creating a classification for fractures of the face .
9-403: Le Fort , as a surname, can refer to: Surname [ edit ] Léon Clément Le Fort (1829–1893), French surgeon René Le Fort (1869–1951), French surgeon François Le Fort (16th century), French merchant François Jacques Le Fort (Frants Yakovlevich Lefort; 1656–1699), Russian general admiral (1695), and close associate of Tsar Peter
18-632: A medical resident followed by work as a military surgeon for the French army hospital at Val-de-Grâce . In 1899 he began teaching classes at the medical university in Lille. At the outbreak of the First Balkan War (1912), he re-joined the army as a military physician. During World War I he received a commendation for bravery for his actions at the Battle of Dinant . He spent the last two years of
27-437: A table. From these tests, he determined that predictable patterns of fractures are the result of certain types of injuries, and concluded that there are three predominant types of mid-face fractures. In some instances, maxillary fractures are a combination of two or three Le Fort types . Although this system of classification is considered somewhat simplistic today, it is still widely used in oral and maxillofacial surgery. It
36-416: The skull . To perform these experiments, Le Fort caused trauma to either attached or decapitated cadaver heads, and delivered blunt forces of varying degrees of magnitude and from different directions. Although a common story holds that Le Fort used cannonballs to induce blunt trauma, he actually used a combination of wooden club, cast iron rod, squeezing in a vice, kicks, or simply throwing the heads against
45-477: The Great . Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971), German writer Ricardo Le Fort (born 1965), Argentine rugby union coach Other uses [ edit ] Le Fort fracture (disambiguation) Le Fort osteotomy Le Fort III (disambiguation) Lefort , a surname Lefortovo (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
54-517: The title Le Fort . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Le_Fort&oldid=1188473329 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ren%C3%A9 Le Fort René Le Fort
63-578: The war in Versailles largely dealing with breast cancer and heart disease issues. In 1919 he worked at the Hôpital des Invalides prior to returning to Lille the following year. Here he became a professor at the surgical department for pediatric surgery and orthopedics . He was also a volunteer at the sanatorium in Zuydcoote , where he researched treatments for bone tuberculosis . In 1936 he
72-613: Was awarded the Prix Laborie and elected president of the Société française de chirurgie et orthopédique . In 1937 he went into retirement, but during World War II returned to the University of Lille to replace former colleagues who were part of the war effort. In 1901 René Le Fort published a treatise called Étude expérimentale sur les fractures de la mâchoire supérieure involving his experiments with maxillary fractures of
81-534: Was born in 1869, in Lille. His father was a physician and his uncle a renowned surgeon, Léon Clément Le Fort . When he was 19 and a military student, he was awarded first place into the Internat des Hôpitaux de Lille. Two years later, he was the youngest in France to receive an MD . After earning his medical degree with a treatise titled Topographie cranio-cérébrale avec applications chirurgicales , he served as
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