Félix Legueu

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

• The most recent lists by Legueu himself are:
• Contemporary (but incomplete) list on SUDOC; 35 titles as an author (Retrieved 2012-03-28).

Selected works

• Des calculs du rein et de l'uretère au point de vue chirurgical, Steinheil. 1891, 150 p. Also online on Google Books
• (With Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave) Traité médico-chirurgical de gynécologie. 1898
• Leçons de clinique chirurgicale, Paris: Félix Alcan. 1902, 454 p.
• (with a foreword by Jean Casimir Félix Guyon).
• (With Edmond Papin and G. Maingot) Exploration radiographique de l'appareil urinaire, 1913
• Cliniques de Necker

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

Bibliography

• (Written by former colleagues)

Notes

References

• Livre Rare Books (publications)
• NCBI Revisiting the Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation