Lecene

LECENE Paul (Paul Lecene, 1878-1929), prominent surgeon and pathologist, professor at the University of Paris. He studied under Terrier, Quenu, Peyrot, and especially under Hartmann. In 1919, L. received the surgical department at the Saint-Louis Hospital, and in 1920, he succeeded Quenu as chair of surgical pathology. L.'s published articles on various issues of clinical and experimental surgery began appearing in 1901; among them, a significant work on phlegmons of the tendon sheaths of the hand is of particular interest, where L. pointed to the necessity of wide incisions with division of the palmar carpal ligament. He wrote two textbooks: "Precis de pathologie chirurgicale" (P., 1908) and "Precis de medecine operatoire" (P., 1911) and two major guides: "Therapeutique chirurgicale" (together with R. Leriche, v. I-III, P., 1926) and "Chirurgie des os et des articulations des membres" (P., 1929). In addition, L. extensively engaged in pathological anatomy.