Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan
Étienne Jacques Marie Raymond Céstan (6 April 1872,
neurologist
.
From 1892 he studied medicine in
Salpêtrière. In 1899 he received his medical doctorate, and was chosen by Fulgence Raymond to be chef de clinique at the Salpêtrière. In 1903 he was put in charge of the histopathology laboratory, and during the following year, he obtained his agrégation. Soon afterwards, he moved to Toulouse, where in 1913 he attained the chair of psychiatry. At this position he conducted research on the development of cerebrospinal fluid and the effects of intra-ventricular injection.[1][2]
Medical terms
- "Céstan-Chenais syndrome" (named with Louis Jean Chenais): A Babinski-Nageotte syndrome.
- "Céstan-LeJonne syndrome": synonymous with Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
- "speech disorders, palsy of lateral conjugate gaze, etc.[1]
Selected works
- Traité élémentaire de chirurgie et de technique opératoires (with Victor Chalot), 1893.
- Des hémorrhagies intrapéritonéales et de l'hématocèle pelvienne considérées particulièrement dans leurs rapports avec la grossesse tubaire. Pathogénie traitement, 1894.
- La thérapeutique des empyèmes, 1898.[3]
- Trois observations de paralysie des mouvements associés des globes oculaires. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1901, 9: 70-77. (with F. Raymond).
- Sur un cas d’endothéliome épithéliale du noyau rouge. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1902, 10: 463-464. (with F. Raymond).
- Une myopathie avec rétractions familiales. Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1902, 15: 38-52. (with N. J. LeJonne).
- Du myosis dans certaines lésions bulbaires en foyer (hémiplégie du type Avellis associée au syndrome oculaire sympathique). Gazette des hôpitaux, Paris, 1903, 76: 1229-1233. (with L. J. Chenais).
- Le syndrome protubérantiel supérieur. Gazette des hôpitaux, Paris, 1903: 823. (with F. Raymond).[1]
References
- ^ Who Named It
- ^ Companion to Clinical Neurology by William Pryse-Phillips
- ^ Most widely held works by Etienne Jacques Marie Raymond Cestan WorldCat Identities
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