Prof Silvio Rolando da Carasco (1873-1949) was an Italian general surgeon specialising in Urology
A prominent general surgeon in Genoa, Italy. Rolando specialized in genitourinary tract surgery.
Rolando is the third Italian surgeon to have a fracture named after him (the Rolando fracture), a distinction he shares with Monteggia and Galeazzi.
Biography
- Born 29 May 1873 Carasco, Genoa Italy
- 1896 – L.D. in ‘Chirurgia operativa‘ e ‘Clinica chirurgica‘, Facolta di medicina e chirurgia, Università di Genova
- 1896 – 1907 Assistant surgeon then Primary surgeon – Ospedale di Pammatone di Genova
- 1912 – l’Ordine dei Medici di Genova
- 1921 – 1949 Primary surgeon at E.O. Ospedali Galliera di Genova
- 1935 – 1937 President Rotary Club di Genova
- Member of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie
- Died 16 December 1949
Medical Eponyms
- Rolando Fracture – (1910) three part comminuted intra-articular fracture at the base of the first metacarpal
Controversies
- Attended Università di Genova (1893-1896) and graduated with honors with full name Angelo Silvio Rolando da Carasco
- Prof. (Angelo) Silvio Rolando son of Emanuele and Luigia Bianchetti born in Carasco on 29/05/1873 [OMCeO GE]
Major Publications
- Rolando S. Spora un caso di criptorchidia inguinale bilaterale. Anatomischer Anzeiger 1904;220-222.
- Rolando S. Fracture de la base du premier metacarpien et principalement sur une variété non encore décrite. Presse Med 1910; 33: 303–304. [Translated Meals RA. Fracture of the base of the first metacarpal and a variation that has not yet been described. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2006 Apr;445:15-8. PMID 8641081]
- Rolando S. Cento prostratectomie [One hundred prostratectomies] Torino : Minerva, 1928.
References
- Personal correspondence: Dr Micaela Pagliano, Dirigente Ufficio Relazioni con il Pubblico. E.O. Ospedali Galliera. Translation: Luigi Boero e Francesca Ambrosini – 2018
- Personal correspondence: Andrea Balba, Ordine provinciale dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri – 2018
- Mahoney M, Marsland D, Garagnani L, Sauvé P. Rolando and his fracture. Trauma. 2014:17(1);24-28
- Mostofi SB. Who’s Who in Orthopedics. Springer; 2005 p289
eponym
the person behind the name
