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ALBARRAN Y DOMINGUEZ, Joaquin Maria (1860 – 1912)

1860 – 1912

6 entries in the GMN corpus.

1891

#4185

Les tumeurs de la vessie.

Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.

1896

#4226.1

Sur un série de quarante opérations pratiquées sur la rein.

First planned nephrostomy.

1903

#7217

Les tumeurs du rein.

Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…

1905

#4232

Exploration des fonctions rénales.

Albarran’s polyuria test for renal inadequacy.

1906

#4233

Technique de la néphropexie.

“Albarran’s operation” – nephropexy.

1909

#4195

Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires.

Albarran, a Cuban, became a teacher of the highest rank and attained a professorship at Paris in 1892. He was the first surgeon in France to perform perineal prostatectomy.