Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu

Who is Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu?

Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu was a French surgeon.

Beginning in 1863 he was an interne of medicine in Paris, later serving as an aide of anatomy and as a prosector to the medical faculty. In 1867 he received his doctorate with a thesis on venous circulation of the foot and leg, two years later obtaining his agrégation in surgery with the dissertation Des anomalies du testicule.

In 1872 he became a surgeon to the "Bureau central", followed by a promotion as chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1876. Subsequently, he was appointed professor to the medical faculty in Paris; second chair of clinical surgery at Hôpital Necker, followed by an assignment as chair of clinical surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu.

Le Dentu is remembered for contributions made in the field of urosurgery; in 1875 being credited with achieving the first recorded occurrence of cure by nephrectomy in France, and in 1898, with Joaquín Albarrán, performing the first nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial cancer.