Félix Legueu

French urologist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench urologist
PlacesFrance
wasPhysician Gynaecologist Urologist Surgeon
Work fieldHealthcare
Gender
Male
Birth12 August 1863, Angers, France
Death2 October 1939 (aged 76 years)
Star signLeo
Awards
Officer of the Legion of Honour 
The details

Biography

Félix Legueu (12 August 1863 – 2 October 1939) was a French urologist and gynecologist born in Angers.

Biography

Legueu was a clinical professor in Paris, a surgeon at Hôpital Necker and a member of the Académie de Médecine.

He specialized in genitourinary disorders. In 1913 he described a procedure for the closure of a vesicovaginal fistula, an abnormal passageway between the bladder and the vagina. That operation, today called the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation", is also named after Drs. Leopold von Dittel (1815–1898) and Émile Forgue (1860–1943).

A few surgical instruments bear Legueu's name, such as the "Legueu bladder retractor" and the "Legueu bladder spatula".

Legueu died in his home from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Works

Lists of works

Selected works

  1. Cliniques de Necker: 1912–1916, A. Maloine et fils. 1917, 378 p.
  2. Cliniques de Necker: 1918–1921, A. Maloine et fils. 1922
  • (With Pierre Truchot and Bernard Fey) La pyéloscopie, Éditions médicales Norbert Maloine, Clinique urologique de Necker. 1927, 112 p.
  • (With Edmond Papin) Précis d'urologie, Maloine. 1937
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