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Peter Gordon Lawrence Essex-Lopresti FRCS Ed. (1916 – 13 June 1951) was a British orthopaedic surgeon remembered for describing the Essex-Lopresti fracture〔 〕 and for his work on classification and treatment of fractures of the calcaneus.〔 〕〔(Calcaneus fractures ) at eMedicine〕 == Biography == Peter Essex-Lopresti trained at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1937. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving as surgical specialist in an airborne division during World War II. He published a report on the injuries sustained during over 20,000 parachute jumps made by the Sixth British Airborne Division,〔 〕 and followed this with a paper on the open wound in trauma. After the war he worked as a consultant surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, where he reorganized the postgraduate training program. He was awarded a Hunterian professorship in 1951, and his Hunterian Lecture, given on 6 March 1951, was "The Mechanism, Reduction Technique, and Results in Fractures of Os Calcis."〔〔Seyed Behrooz Mostofi. ''Who's who in orthopedics.'' Springer, 2005, pages 99-100. ISBN 978-1-85233-786-5. (Google books )〕 He died suddenly at home at the age of 35, leaving a wife and two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Essex-Lopresti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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