Abstract
The background in the treatment of maxillary cancer in France may be traced back to 1827 when Gensoul in Lyon succeeded in total maxillectomy.
Nelaton, Velpean, Pean also contributed in providing better incisions for the surgery.
Moure and Sebileau, qn the other hand, proposed partial resection of the maxillary bone in a more conservative surgery.
Regaud was the first who advocated a combined treatment by surgery and irradiation.
Dargent, Baclesse Huet and Leroux-Robert, in recent years, described various new aspects in the treatmat of cancer of the maxilla.
These works of French doctors do not seem to be familiar to Japanese doctors. The author who stayed at Lyon university for about a year in 1968-69 term described various aspects in diagnosis and the treatment of the cancer of the maxilla in France.
