Léon Clément Le Fort [SEP] occupation
Léon Clément Le Fort
Léon Clément Le Fort (5 December 1829, Lille – 19 October 1893) was a French surgeon remembered for his work on uterine prolapse, including Le Fort's operation. He also described Le Fort's fracture of the ankle and Le Fort's amputation of the foot.
Biography.
Léon Le Fort undertook medical training in Paris under Joseph-François Malgaigne and Stanislas Laugier, and was awarded his doctorate in 1858. He volunteered in the Second Italian War of Independence from 1859, and became
Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture
Le Fort's fracture of the ankle is a vertical fracture of the antero-medial part of the distal fibula with avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament, opposite to a Tillaux-Chaput avulsion fracture
The injury was described by Léon Clément Le Fort in 1886.
See also.
- Ankle fracture