Silvio Rolando

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. PMID8641081]
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
Hunter TB, Peltier LF, Lund PJ. Radiologic history exhibit. Musculoskeletal eponyms: who are those guys? RadioGraphics 2000; 20: 819-36.
Mostofi SB. Who’s Who in Orthopedics. Springer; 2005 p289

eponym

the person behind the name