Charles Marie Edouard Chassaignac

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Charles Marie Edouard Chassaignac (1805-79) was a French physician. He was born in Nantes and in 1835 became prosecutor and professor at the university and physician at the central bureau of the hospitals of Paris. He originated the surgical operation known as écrasement, by means of which tumors, piles, polypi, and other growths may be removed without the effusion of blood. The general introduction of drainage in surgery is also due to his initiative. He wrote Traité de l'écrasement linéaire (1856); Leçons sur la trachéométrie (1855); Clinique chirurgicale (1854-58); Traité pratique de la suppuration et du drainage chirurgical (two volumes, 1859).

He introduced the use of drainage tubes into surgery.

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Chassaignac's tubercle — the strongly developed anterior tubercle of the transverse process of the sixth cervical vertebra: called also carotid tubercle.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)

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