Félix Legueu

Félix Legueu was a French urologist and gynecologist, born in Angers in 1863, who became a clinical professor in Paris, a surgeon at the Hôpital Necker and a member of the Académie de Médecine. He specialised in disorders of the genitourinary tract. In 1913 he described a procedure for closing a vesicovaginal fistula, the abnormal passage between the bladder and the vagina, an operation now called the Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation after him and the physicians Leopold von Dittel and Émile Forgue. Surgical instruments such as the Legueu bladder retractor and the Legueu bladder spatula also carry his name. His published work includes a surgical treatise on urology of 1910, a treatise on gynecology written with Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave and a short textbook of urology written with Edmond Papin. He died in 1939 at his home.