Jean Marie Champetier

Jean Marie Champetier, Professor of Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine at Grenoble and hospital staff surgeon, died on 16 December 1992 at the age of 62, after a short and severe illness, borne with courage and dignity. His funeral was strictly private. He began his medical studies at Lyon and was received as an intern of the Grenoble hospitals in 1960. From then on, he undertook research in the anatomy depar tment at Grenoble, under the direction of F Calas and Y Bouchet. In 1970, he was appointed to the teaching staff in anatomy and organogenesis. As a hospital surgeon, he was appointed Head of the departments of emergency and gastrointestinal surgery in 1977, and later, in 1981, Head of the department of general and gastrointestinal surgery at the CHU of Grenoble. His anatomic studies covered research and its appl ica t ions in every sector of our discipline. To list only t he mos t impor t an t o f these: on the mediastinum: with R Sarrazin and Ch Contamin. Fourteen sagittal sections of the mediastinum (1965); on the nervous system: Truncular fasciculation of the third cranial nerve, reconstruction by Born's method, with M Barge (1966); in functional and applied anatomy: The muscles of the shoulder, a f i lm that ga ined several awards (1976); in surgical anatomy: the anatomic basis of gastrectomy (1971), cholecystectomy (1977) and cephztlic duodeno-pancreatectomy (1978); the biomechanical basis of the treatment of eventration (1978); aberrant bile ducts (1982); hepatic segmentation and its anomalies (1985); the liver in frontal section (1987) and oblique section (1992); the functional ana tomy of the fetal l iver (1989); the liver and biliary tracts, to appear in the Manual of Clinical Anatomy: Trunk. Finally, in this issue: the wide inferior fight hepatic vein, an article that he courageously completed and sent to SRA on the very eve of his hospitalisation. Similarly, his Travaux de Chirurgie (Studies in Surgery) cover every aspect of pathology, with a predilection for gastrointest inal surgery.