Jean-François Calot

Jean-François Calot (17 May 1861 – 1 March 1944)[1] was a French surgeon best known for describing treatment of curvature of the spine in Pott's disease. He also described a method of treating tuberculous abscesses and defined Calot's triangle.[2]

Biography

Calot was born in a farmer family of six children and spent his childhood in Arrens-Marsous, France.[3] He received his bachelor's degree in 1880 at Saint-Pe de Bigorre and in 1881 moved to Paris, where he worked as a tutor to pay for his university education. While still a student he described Calot's triangle in his doctoral thesis, defended on 12 December 1890.[1] He then worked as a surgeon at l'Hôpital Rotschild and l'Hôpital Cazin-Perrochaud in Berck. He described his technique for treating Pott's disease of the spine in a paper he read to the Academy of Medicine in Paris in 1896.[2] Much of his work later in his career was in orthopaedic surgery, particularly the treatment of war injuries;[4] he founded the Institut orthopédique de Berck in 1900.[2]

Callot married Marie Bacqueville (1870–1934), and together they had four daughters.[1]

Eponyms

Calot's triangle – isosceles triangle bounded by the common hepatic duct, the cystic duct and the cystic artery; it remains an important landmark for surgeons performing cholecystectomy to avoid damaging the common bile duct.[5]
Calot's node – gallbladder lymph node.
Calot's method – treatment of tuberculous abscesses by repeated puncture and immobilisation.[6]
Calot's operation – surgical correction of spinal deformity due to Pott's disease (spinal tuberculosis).

References

Philippe Loisel La Vie et l'OEuvre de François Calot, chirurgien orthopédiste de Berck (in French). Report presented at Société française d'Histoire de la Médecine on 18 March 1987.
Jean-François Calot at Who Named It?
Muirhead WR, O'Leary JP (1999). "Calot's triangle: loose interpretation or respectful accuracy?". Am Surg. 65 (2): 186–7. PMID 9926757. gives birth date as 21 May
Haubrich WS (2002). "Calot of the triangle of Calot" (PDF). Gastroenterology. 123 (5): 1440. doi:10.1053/gast.2002.1231440. PMID 12404217. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
Way LW, Stewart L, Gantert W, et al. (2003). "Causes and prevention of laparoscopic bile duct injuries: analysis of 252 cases from a human factors and cognitive psychology perspective". Ann. Surg. 237 (4): 460–9. doi:10.1097/01.SLA.0000060680.92690.E9. PMC 1514483. PMID 12677139.
Mounier-Kuhn A, Sutter B (2005). "[François Calot's concepts about the treatment of osteoarticular tuberculosis]". Hist Sci Med (in French). 39 (3): 303–14. PMID 17152776.

External links

Works by or about Jean-François Calot at Internet Archive

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[bio2-1] Philippe Loisel La Vie et l'OEuvre de François Calot, chirurgien orthopédiste de Berck (in French). Report presented at Société française d'Histoire de la Médecine on 18 March 1987.

[who-2] Jean-François Calot at Who Named It?

[bio-3] Muirhead WR, O'Leary JP (1999). "Calot's triangle: loose interpretation or respectful accuracy?". Am Surg. 65 (2): 186–7. PMID 9926757. gives birth date as 21 May

[4] Haubrich WS (2002). "Calot of the triangle of Calot" (PDF). Gastroenterology. 123 (5): 1440. doi:10.1053/gast.2002.1231440. PMID 12404217. Retrieved 2011-01-08.

[5] Way LW, Stewart L, Gantert W, et al. (2003). "Causes and prevention of laparoscopic bile duct injuries: analysis of 252 cases from a human factors and cognitive psychology perspective". Ann. Surg. 237 (4): 460–9. doi:10.1097/01.SLA.0000060680.92690.E9. PMC 1514483. PMID 12677139.

[6] Mounier-Kuhn A, Sutter B (2005). "[François Calot's concepts about the treatment of osteoarticular tuberculosis]". Hist Sci Med (in French). 39 (3): 303–14. PMID 17152776.