Manuel Juan María Balado Fernandez, Argentine neurosurgeon (Buenos Aires 06 May 1897 – Buenos Aires 24 March 1942)

Authored about 150 papers

Described the topography of optical tract, visual pathway and geniculate bodies

With Elizabeth Franke. Das Corpus Geniculatum Externum – Eine Anatomisch-Klinische Studie (1937) with international acclaim

Described idiopathic optico-chiasmatic arachnoiditis (Balado syndrome)

First to explore the optochiasmatic region in patient with optical neuritis

With P. Satanowsky. Tratamiento quirurgico de la atrofia de la papila. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 4:71, 1929

With J. Malbrán. Arachnoiditis quiasmatica. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 8:96-106, 1933

With R. Morea & C. Donovan conceived iodine ventriculography for brain tumours localization

Radiografia del tercer ventriculo mediante la inyección intraventricular del lipiodol. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 2:69-77, 1928

Tecnica de la iodoventriculografia (1928)

Tecnica de ventriculografia com lipiodol. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 6:34-9, 1930

First to report a patient with spinal cord tumor and hydrocephalus

With S. Bettinotti. Hidrocefalia aguda por tumor intramedular. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 5:28-32, 1929

Conducted a detailed analysis of the pressure diferences along the craniospinal axis in distinct pathologies and for the first time described certain aspects of variations in cerebrospinal fluid pressures

Lecciones de Cirurgia Neurologica (1931)

With M. Ibañez Puiggari & E. Gaviña Alvarado. Enfermedad osteocutanea familial seudoacromegálica. Arch. Hosp. Soc. Benef. Cap. 8:25-47, 1934

One of the first to obtain electrocorticography recordings (1935)

One of the first to stress the relevance of spike-wave phenomenon for guiding the resection of abnormal brain cortex in cases of refractory epilepsy

With F. Luis Romero & Pedro J. Noiseux. El Electroencefalograma Humano. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 20:215-375, 1939 (with over 360 bibliographic citations; published as a book)

Methods 

A satisfactory method for staining the nerve fibers of the íris. Arch. Neur. Psych. 16(4):442-6, 1926

Tecnica de la sección de los nervios craneanos del perro. Rev. Univ. Buenos Aires 23(4):331-8, 1926