Louis Léopold Ollier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French surgeon
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Place of Birth: Les Vans, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Louis Léopold Ollier
- Louis Léopold Ollier, full name Louis Xavier Édouard Léopold Ollier (French: [?lje]; 2 December 1830 – 26 November 1900) was a French surgeon born in Les Vans, department of Ardèche.
- His father and grandfather were also physicians. Initially he studied natural sciences at Montpellier, and in 1851 began work as medical interne at Lyon Hospital.
- In 1857 he earned his medical doctorate in Paris, and in 1860 became chief-surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.
- In 1877 he became a professor of clinical surgery.
- Following Ollier's death in 1900, his position at Lyon was filled by surgeon Mathieu Jaboulay (1860–1913).Ollier is famous for his work in bone and joint surgery.
- He became internationally known for developing techniques involving bone-resection, and is remembered for his extensive research of regeneration of bone by the periosteum following resection.
- He was a pioneer in the field of bone grafting, and also devised a surgical operation known as astragalectomy. In 1872 he developed a split-thickness skin graft that was later improved upon by Karl Thiersch (Ollier–Thiersch graft).
- His name is also associated with Ollier's disease, a bone disorder that is also known as multiple enchondromatosis.
- Furthermore, the cambium layer (inner layer of the periosteum) is sometimes referred to as "Ollier's layer".
- This is the layer of tissue where osteoblasts reside.
- On 24 June 1894 Ollier was awarded commander of the Légion d'Honneur by French president Marie-François-Sadi Carnot.
- Ironically, later that evening Carnot was stabbed by an assassin, and Ollier was summoned to tend to the dying president's wounds.
- Today, the museum of pathological anatomy at the University of Lyon is named in Ollier's honor.
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