Alphonse François Marie Guérin (August 9, 1816 – February 21, 1895) was a French surgeon who was a native of Ploërmel. He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1850 became a surgeon of Parisian hospitals. During his career, he practiced surgery at the Lourcine, Cochin, Hôpital Saint-Louis and Hôtel-Dieu. In 1868 he became a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine. In 1870, Guérin introduced the practice of using cotton-wool bandages for prevention of wound infections. He described a horizontal fracture of the maxilla immediately above the teeth and palate, that is known today as a "Le Fort I fracture", or sometimes as a "Guérin fracture".

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He was a specialist in urologic surgery, and has a handful of genitourinary terms that contain his name:

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