What started the tradition of shoulder surgery at Saint-Antoine?
A.A. I think Jean Gosset was the first person to become interested in it, especially in the management of recurrent shoulder instability, for which he devised the rib graft technique. That goes back to the early 1950s. M.O. How did Jean Gosset the general surgeon become Jean Gosset the shoulder surgeon? A.A. He had always been interested in traumatology and bone surgery, amongst other areas. It went with his interest in mechanics, craft work, anything with a bit of DIY about it. And he had produced acrylic hip prostheses at the same time as Judet. He was very interested in tibial plateau fractures, and in recurrent shoulder dislocation. At the same time, his assistant Paul Dautry was interested in degenerative shoulders and in rotator cuff tears, and was tending to do decompression and debridement while everybody else was repairing the cuff. Dautry acquired a reputation for relieving impingement, and this way Saint-Antoine came to be known as a centre of shoulder surgery. M.O. Jean Gos
