Édouard Brissaud

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Édouard Brissaud (1852-04-15, Besançon – 1909-12-20) was a French physician and pathologist. He was taught by Jean Martin Charcot at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He had interests in a number of medical disciplines including motion disturbances, anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He died of a brain tumour, aged 57.

He has been awarded a large number of eponyms many of which are now rarely used and some were not the dominant eponym in use.

• Bourneville-Brissaud disease – tuberous sclerosis. He studied one of the earliest diagnosed cases with Désiré-Magloire Bourneville in 1881.
• Brissaud's scoliosis – a form of scoliosis giving "a list of the lumbar part of the spine away from the affected side in sciatica" (Dorland's Medical Dictionary). Described in 1895.
• Brissaud's disease – Tourette syndrome. He gave a detailed description in 1896.
• Brissaud's infantilism – infantile myxedema (hypothyroidism). Described in 1907.
• Brissaud's reflex – a contraction of the tensor fasciae latae (a thigh muscle) on tickling the sole of the foot.
• Brissaud-Sicard syndrome – is "hemiparesis and contralateral hemifacial spasm resulting from a pontine lesion" (Stedman's Medical Dictionary). Described in 1908.

[edit] Papers

• Bourneville D, Brissaud É (1881). "Encéphalite ou sclérose tubéreuse des circonvolutions cérébrales". Archives de neurologie, Paris 1: 390–412. 
• Brissaud É (1895). Leçons sur les maladies nerveuses. Paris: Masson, 469-501. 
• Brissaud É (1896). "La chorée variable des dégenerés". Revue neurologique, Paris 4: 417–431. 
• Brissaud É (1907). "L'infantilisme vrai". Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris 20: 1–17. 
• Brissaud É, Sicard JA (1908). "L’hémispasme facial altern". Presse médicale, Paris 16: 1234–236. 

[edit] See also

• Timeline of tuberous sclerosis
• History of Tourette syndrome

[edit] References

• Enersen, Ole Daniel. Édouard Brissaud. Who Named It?. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
• Enersen, Ole Daniel. Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome. Who Named It?. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
• Enersen, Ole Daniel. Brissaud's infantilism. Who Named It?. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
• Enersen, Ole Daniel. Brissaud's reflex. Who Named It?. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
• Enersen, Ole Daniel. Brissaud's scoliosis. Who Named It?. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
• Enersen, Ole Daniel. Brissaud-Sicard syndrome. Who Named It?. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.