Jean Civiale
French surgeon and urologist (1792-1867) · France · On the map · Doctors · Died at 74
Jean Civiale (1792-1867) was a French surgeon and urologist, who, in 1823, invented a surgical instrument and performed transurethral lithotripsy, the first known minimally invasive surgery, to crush stones inside the bladder without having to open the abdomen (lithotomy).
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To remove a calculus, Civiale inserted his instrument through the urethra and bored holes in the stone. Afterwards, he crushed it with the same instrument and aspired the resulting fragments or let them flow normally with urine.
