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.
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."
He died suddenly at home at the age of 35, leaving a wife and two children.
References
- Essex-Lopresti, P (May 1951). "Fractures of the radial head with distal radio-ulnar dislocation; report of two cases". J Bone Joint Surg Br. 33B (2): 244–7. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.33B2.244. PMID 14832324.
- ^ Essex-Lopresti, P (March 1952). "The mechanism, reduction technique, and results in fractures of the os calcis". Br J Surg. 39 (157): 395–419. doi:10.1002/bjs.18003915704. PMID 14925322. S2CID 31965355.
- Calcaneus fractures at eMedicine
- Essex-Lopresti, P (1946). "The hazards of parachuting". Br J Surg. 34 (133): 1–13. doi:10.1002/bjs.18003413302. PMID 20994126. S2CID 34162094.
- Essex-Lopresti, P (22 April 1950). "The open wound in trauma". Lancet. 1 (6608): 745–51. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(50)90589-7. PMID 15416018.
- Seyed Behrooz Mostofi. Who's who in orthopedics. Springer, 2005, pages 99-100. ISBN 978-1-85233-786-5. Google books
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