Antonin Gosset

GOSSET, Antonin (born 1872), a well-known French surgeon. In 1900 he brilliantly defended his doctoral dissertation ("Etudes sur les pyonephroses", P., 1900), in 1901 he received the title of privat-docent (agrégé), and in 1903—surgeon of the Paris city hospitals. In 1919-20 Gosset received the title of professor and lectured on surgical pathology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. From 1920 to the present time he has been professor of the surgical clinic of the same university. During the World War (February 1915) he organized the first mobile surgical automobile hospitals in France, which rendered enormous services in providing prompt aid to the wounded. In the field of military surgery, he published works on penetrating wounds of the abdomen, wounds of the kidneys and ureter, wounds of the peripheral nerves, cranioplasty, and wounds of the spinal cord. Gosset's main works in the field of surgery relate to the technique of gastrotomy, gastroenterostomy, and surgical interventions in the area of the bile duct and the hepatic duct ("De la duodénotomie dans la lithiase du cholédoque", Journ. de chir., t. V, № 5, 1914; "De la cholédocotomie pour lithiase", Presse méd., 1925, № 31). He proposed a method of cholecystectomy by approaching the gallbladder from behind and developed a method of duodenotomy for stones of the bile duct. In the field of gynecology, he proposed

a method of total abdominal hysterectomy for purulent inflammations of the Fallopian tubes, with drainage through the vagina. Finally, he described the technique of thoracotomy for pulmonary echinococcosis and proposed a special method of total laryngectomy. Gosset actively collaborated in a number of major collective works on surgery.

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