Author details CESP, Inserm U1018, Univ Paris-Saclay, Univ Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Villejuif, France. FCRIN INI-CRCT, Paris, France. Bichat Hospital, Paris, France. INSERM U1138, Paris, France. HEGP, Paris, France. Tenon Hospital, Paris, France. INSERM, UMRS970, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Ambroise Paré Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. INSERM CIC 1433, Nancy CHRU and University of Lorraine, N...

E. Van Cutsem1, A. Cervantes2, B. Nordlinger3 & D. Arnold4, on behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Digestive Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, Fr...

1 Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne 92104, France 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Western Clinical School, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 410 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA 4Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospi...

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) is regarded as one of the greatest surgeons who ever lived. In the sixteenth century, through his example and his writings, Paré did more than anybody else to raise the previously poor reputation of surgery "to one of dignity and esteem." He significantly influenced the surgical management of wounds, especially those produced by gunshot. However, he wrote widely on oth...

UMRS 942 Inserm, 75010 Paris, France; Clinical and Research Memory Center, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France; Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Department of Biochemistry, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France; Centre for Biological Resources, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France...

Ambroise Pare's life spanned most of the sixteenth century. He was born in a village near Laval in Maine, to a chest maker. After an apprenticeship to a barber-surgeon in Angers from the age of 15, he spent four years (1532-36) as surgical dresser at the Hotel Dieu in Paris. Sylvius was one of his teachers. He qualified as a master barber-surgeon in 1541 and was admitted to the Royal College of...

Xavier Repessé and Antoine Vieillard-Baron Section Thorax-Vascular Disease-Abdomen-Metabolism, Intensive Care Unit, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Faculty of Medicine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France; and Renal and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, ...

*Centre de Recherche de l’Association Claude Bernard and Université Paris VI (UPRES EA no 2390), †Service de Cardiologie, ***Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, ‡‡‡INSERM U153, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; ‡INSERM SC7 and §INSERM U258, Hôpital Broussais, Paris; QMONICA project-France, †††INSERM U249, Montpellier; Services de Cardiologie and/or Chirurgie Cardiaque, ¶Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulo...