Félix Lagrot (1899-1998)
Thesis: Le spina bifida occulta postérieur lombo-sacré et la métamérisation des arcs du sacrum. Thesis (D.M.)–Université d’Alger, 1924. Full Text PDF
Félix Lagrot was born on January 27, 1899 in Algiers. He earned a Doctorat en Médecine from the Université d’Alger in 1924. He served as a doctor during World War II, during which he became interested in English plastic surgery techniques. In 1952, he co-founded the Société française de chirurgie plastique with colleagues in Paris. He taught in Algiers (1958-1962), and was a professor of clinical surgery and hospital surgeon in Toulouse (1962-1970). In 1984 the Centre de Grands Brûlées Félix Lagrot was named for him.
Lagrot was a member of the Académie de chirurgie (1953), corresponding member of the Académie nationale de medicine (1972) and participated in various scientific societies. He was decorated as an Officier de la Légion d’honneur, with the Médaille de l’aéronautique, and as a Chevalier des Palmes académiques.
Félix Lagrot died on November 28, 1998.
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“Lagrot (Félix).” Who’s Who in France. Qui est qui en France. Dictionnaire biographique de personnalités françaises vivant en France, dans les territoires d’Outre-Mer ou à l’étranger et de personnalités étrangères résidant en France. 14th ed., 1979-1980. Paris: Editions Jacques Lafitte, 1979.
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GRECO, Jean-Marie. “Professeur Félix Lagrot: 27 janvier 1899-28 novembre 1998 Alger-Toulouse.” Annales de chirurgie plastique esthétique. 44, no. 3 (June 1999): 217-223.
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Biographies of selected authors from the New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses written by Kristin W. Andrews, B.A., M.S.L.S.
