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P Monod-Broca

Publications and source records attributed to P Monod-Broca.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2001

[Paul Broca: 1824-1880].

Paul Broca was very gifted: a hospital surgeon and professor of surgery by the age of 29, anatomist, neurologist, anthropologist, he was interested in medicine as a whole. He remains famous for describing the first brain localisation.

Anthropology↗
PubMed1996

[Notes on the history of Duchenne's disease].

The author shows by citations from Paul Broca, Duchenne (de Boulogne) and other authors that the first description of myopathias has been given in 1847 by P. Broca at the Société anatomique and that he had correctly interpreted their muscular (and not nervous) origin.

France↗
PubMed1990

[Mortality in emergency abdominal surgery. 304 cases. A plea for better clinical practice].

Survey of 304 cases of surgical, abdominal emergencies (peritonitis and bowel occlusions). We deplored 42 post-operative deaths (14%). When patients are operated within 12 hours after the beginning of the pain, out of a group of 56 patients, two died (4%). After the 48th hour, of 114 patients operated, 26 died (23%) despite a stay in an intensive care unit. 174 patients, under 60 years old, we operated; 4 died (2.3%). This is mainly due to a stay in an intensive care unit (50 were operated after the 48th hour). Out of a group of 60 eighty years old patients, 18 were operated before the 24th hour; one death, that of a 94 years old patient, was deplored. Out of the 42 patients operated after the 24th hour, 19 died (45%). On the 304 patients, 56 (18%) were operated before the 12th hour, and 18 only, before the 6th hour (6%). the delay in operating, does not increases mortality only, but increase the duration of hospitalisation; this in itself increase expenses and sufferings. The causes of these delays are analyzed. A wiser use of clinical examination would decrease them.

Abdomen, Acute↗
PubMed1989

[Mortality in emergency abdominal surgery: apropos of 304 cases. An argument for clinical medicine].

Survey of 304 cases of surgical, abdominal emergencies (peritonitis and bowel occlusions). We deplored 42 post-operative deaths (14%). When patients are operated within 12 hours after the beginning of the pain, out of a group of 56 patients, two died (4%). After the 48th hour, of 114 patients operated, 26 died (23%) despite a stay in an intense care unit. 174 patients, under 60 years old, were operated; 4 died (2.3%). This is mainly due to a stay in an intense care unit (50 were operated after the 48th hour). Out of a group of 60 eighty years old patients, 18 were operated before the 24th hour; one death, that of a 94 years old patient, was deplored. Out of the 42 patients operated after the 24th hour, 19 died (45%). On the 304 patients, 56 (18%) were operated before the 12th hour, and 18 only, before the 6th hour (6%). The delay in operating, does not increase mortality only, but increase the duration of hospitalisation; this in itself increase expenses and sufferings. The causes of these delays are analyzed. A wiser use of clinical examination would decrease them.

Abdomen, Acute↗
PubMed1986

[Place of endoscopic sphincterotomy in the treatment of biliary lithiasis].

Endoscopic sphincterotomy is a benign procedure but occasional complications happen. They require a surgical team used to their specific management. On the other endoscopic sphincterotomy may control surgical insufficiency: retained stones. Main duct stones need a surgical approach, but endoscopy may be a substitute in many cases; this technic is more benign and efficient in most cases.

Ampulla of Vater↗
PubMed1982

[Retroperitoneal tumors in adults. Apropos of 11 cases].

This study reviews 11 cases of retroperitoneal tumors. The authors note the absence of symptoms and recommend preoperative angiography as a method of diagnosis and therapy. Preoperative vascular embolization of the retroperitoneal mass helps to control bleeding at operation. Operative results were disappointing. Although three patients are still alive some ten years after treatment, four have died of the cancer itself, meanwhile. But even in the case of very invasive tumors, the results may seem satisfactory for fairly long periods of time.

Adult↗