Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers

Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (4 February 1808 – 5 July 1872) was a French surgeon who was a native of Paris.

In 1837 he received his medical doctorate, and later was a professor of surgery and anatomy in Paris.

[1] Denonvilliers was a pioneer of facial reconstructive surgery.

In 1856 he independently performed the second Z-plasty operation for treatment of lower lid ectropion,[2] after Horner in 1837.

[5] With Auguste Bérard (1802-1846) and Léon Athanase Gosselin (1815-1887), he was co-author of the three-volume Compendium de chirurgie pratique (1845-1861).