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History of physicians who made the medico-surgical proctology « à la française » Volume 19, issue 3, Mars 2012

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Centre hospitalier Diaconesses-Croix Saint-Simon, service de proctologie médico-interventionnelle, 18 rue du Sergent Bauchat, 75012 Paris, Hôpital européen Georges Pompidou, service de gastroentérologie, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris

The medico-surgical proctology practiced by physicians is a French specificty. It occurred because of a favourable contest of circumstances and the determination of a handful of doctors, for the majority gastroenterologists, to whom we wanted to pay tribute.