Pierre Charles Huguier was a French surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

 and gynecologist who was born in Sézanne

Sézanne

Sézanne is a commune in the Marne department and Champagne-Ardenne region in north-eastern France. Its inhabitants are called Sézannais.-See also:*Communes of the Marne department...

. In 1834 he received his medical doctorate at Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and was later a surgeon at the Hôpital Beaujon.

Huguier is remembered for his pioneer work with genitourinary diseases such as lymphogranuloma venereum

Lymphogranuloma venereum

Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the invasive serovars L1, L2, L2a or L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis....

, and uterine fibroma, which was historically called "Huguier's disease".. He provided an early description of the anastomosis

Anastomosis

An anastomosis is the reconnection of two streams that previously branched out, such as blood vessels or leaf veins. The term is used in medicine, biology, mycology and geology....

 around the isthmus of the uterus

Isthmus of uterine tube

The visible medial third of the uterine tube is the isthmus tubae uterinae. It is medidally bordered by the intramural portion of the tube that connects to the endometrial cavity and laterally by the ampullary part of the tube....

, which is sometimes referred to as "Huguier's circle". His name is also lent to two anatomical structures associated with the ear

Ear

The ear is the organ that detects sound. It not only receives sound, but also aids in balance and body position. The ear is part of the auditory system....

:

• Huguier's canal, or the anterior canaliculus
  Canaliculus (bone)
  Canaliculi are microscopic canals between the various lacunae of ossified bone. The radiating processes of the osteocytes project into these canals. These cytoplasmic processes are joined together by gap junctions. Osteocytes do not entirely fill up the canaliculi. The remaining space is known...
  
   of chorda tympani
  Chorda tympani
  The chorda tympani is a nerve that branches from the facial nerve inside the facial canal, just before the facial nerve exits the skull via the Stylomastoid foramen...
  
  : A canal at the medial end of the petrotympanic fissure
  Petrotympanic fissure
  The petrotympanic fissure is a fissure in the temporal bone that runs from the temporomandibular joint to the tympanic cavity....
  
  , through which the chorda tympani nerve
  Chorda tympani
  The chorda tympani is a nerve that branches from the facial nerve inside the facial canal, just before the facial nerve exits the skull via the Stylomastoid foramen...
  
   exits the tympanic cavity
  Tympanic cavity
  The tympanic cavity is a small cavity surrounding the bones of the middle ear.It is formed from the tubotympanic recess, an expansion of the first pharyngeal pouch....
  
  . Also known as the canal of Huguier, or iter chordae anterius.
• Huguier's sinus: or the fossula fenestrae vestibuli: A depression on the medial wall of the middle ear
  Middle ear
  The middle ear is the portion of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the cochlea. The mammalian middle ear contains three ossicles, which couple vibration of the eardrum into waves in the fluid and membranes of the inner ear. The hollow space of the middle ear has...
  
   which has the vestibular window
  Oval window
  The oval window is a membrane-covered opening which leads from the middle ear to the vestibule of the inner ear.Vibrations that come into contact with the tympanic membrane travel through the three ossicles and into the inner ear...
  
   in its lower portion. Also called the little fossa
  Fossa (anatomy)
  In anatomical terminology, fossa has come to mean a depression or hollow, in general, in a bone. Other parts of the body may be involved, for example, the antecubital fossa...
  
  of the vestibular window.

Selected writings

• Mémoire sur les appareils sécréteurs des organes génitaux externes chez la femme et chez les animaux. Extrait des Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Avril 1850.
• Mémoire sur les kystes de la matrice et sur les kystes folliculaires du vagin. Lu à la Société de Chirurgie le 5 mai 1847.
• Mémoire sur les maladies des appareils sécréteurs des organes génitaux externes de la femme. Extrait des Mémoires de l'Academie Nationale de Médecine. 1850
• Mémoire sur l'esthiomène, ou darte rongeante de la région vulvo-anale. Extrait du tome XIV des Mémoires d l'Academie Nationale de Médecine. 1849