Léon Eugène Bérard
Léon Eugène Bérard (17 February 1870, in
oncologist. He was the younger brother of Hellenist scholar Victor Bérard
(1864–1931).
Life
He studied medicine in Lyon obtaining his doctorate in 1896. In 1898 he earned his agrégation in surgery, later being assigned as a surgeon to Lyon hospitals (1901). In 1914 he became a professor of clinical surgery, and from 1923 to 1940 served as director of the cancer centre in Lyon (later named the "Centre Léon-Bérard" in his honor).[1]
Known for his pioneer work in the fight against
buccal mucosa and for cancer of the cervix.[1]
He was a member of the Société de chirurgie de Lyon and of the Société nationale de médecine et des sciences médicales de Lyon. From 1946 to 1956 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences.[1]
Selected works
- Contribution à l'anatomie et à la chirurgie du goître : parallèle entre la thyroïdectomie partielle, les énucléations et l'exothyropexie, 1896 (under the direction of enucleationand exothyropexy.
- Traité clinique de l'actinomycose humaine, pseudo-actinomycose et botryomycose, 1899 (with Antonin Poncet) – Clinical treatise on human actinomycosis, pseudo-actinomycosis and botryomycosis.
- Cancer de l'oesophage, 1927 – Cancer of the esophagus.
- Affections chirurgicales du corps thyroïde, 1929 – Surgical diseases of the thyroid gland.[2]
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