Jean-François Calot

Calot was born in a farmer family of six children and spent his childhood in Arrens-Marsous, France.[3] He received his bachelor's degree in 1880 at Saint-Pe de Bigorre and in 1881 moved to Paris, where he worked as a tutor to pay for his university education. While still a student he described Calot's triangle in his doctoral thesis, defended on 12 December 1890.[1] He then worked as a surgeon at l'Hôpital Rotschild and l'Hôpital Cazin-Perrochaud in Berck. He described his technique for treating Pott's disease of the spine in a paper he read to the Academy of Medicine in Paris in 1896.[2] Much of his work later in his career was in orthopaedic surgery, particularly the treatment of war injuries;[4] he founded the Institut orthopédique de Berck in 1900.[2]

Callot married Marie Bacqueville (1870–1934), and together they had four daughters.[1]

• Calot's triangle – isosceles triangle bounded by the common hepatic duct, the cystic duct and the cystic artery; it remains an important landmark for surgeons performing cholecystectomy to avoid damaging the common bile duct.[5]
• Calot's node – gallbladder lymph node.
• Calot's method – treatment of tuberculous abscesses by repeated puncture and immobilisation.[6]
• Calot's operation – surgical correction of spinal deformity due to Pott's disease (spinal tuberculosis).

• Works by or about Jean-François Calot at Internet Archive