Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin

Jacques Lisfranc (* April 2, 1790, † May 13, 1847 ) was a French surgeon.

Lisfranc fracture-dislocation is known for the eponymous tarsometatarsal joint. His descriptions of this injury come from his time as a medical officer in Napoleon's army when the rider droves fell from their horses. Some stayed depend in their stirrups, frequent result was a Vorfußbruch and a displacement of the metatarsal bone away from the tarsal bones - the Lisfranc fracture-dislocation. Also named after him amputation is performed at this point between the metatarsal and tarsal bones.

After the military Lisfranc worked as a surgeon in Paris, where the skilful surgeon succeeded in numerous extremely difficult operations. He resected for example, nine of the dam Rektumtumore ago. The fact that only three of the patients died, was a surprisingly good rate for that time. Although he operated progressive, also Lisfranc stopped long outdated therapies tight as bloodletting. Who also lives in Paris, American physician and writer OW Holmes described him as " a great Blutabzapfer and Abhacker of the human body" and saw him in a " frenzy, as he ordered his patients and all, to let the wire, whatever they lacked ". As a professor of surgery, he was known to teach in a loud, booming voice. He likes to attack in his lectures his former teacher Guillaume Dupuytren. His reputation as a surgeon, scientist and lecturer was enormous.

According to him the Lisfranc line ( articulationes tarsometatarsales ) is named at the foot skeleton, along which a foot amputation is possible.