Pierre Bazy (28 March 1853 – 22 January 1934) was a French surgeon and urologist born in Sainte-Croix-Volvestre.
He studied medicine in Toulouse, afterwards serving as an interne at the Hôpital Lourcine in Paris. He successively worked at the Bicêtre, Hôpital Tenon and Hôpital Saint-Louis. At the Hôpital Beaujon he was appointed director of urology. Bazy was a member of the Académie de Médecine and the Académie des Sciences (1921).
A specialist in genitourinary medicine, he is credited with coining the term uretéro-cysto-néostomie (today known as ureteroneocystostomy) for surgery involving implantation of the upper end of a transected ureter into the bladder.Electronic Library Surgical diseases of the kidney and ureterMedical Dictionary (definition) Bazy was a proponent of preventive serotherapy for treatment of tetanus.
Selected writings Atlas des maladies des voies urinaires, with Félix Guyon (1831–1920). De l'uretéro-cysto-néostomie (1894) Maladies des voies urinaires (1896–1901); multi-volume. Contribution à la chirurgie de l'uretère. De l'uretéro-pyélo-néostomie (1897) La Serotherapie dans le tetanos (1914) Urologie pratique, (second edition- 1930).
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