Manuel Balado, 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

Described brain chronic oedema

With Carlos Malbrán described chiasmatic arachnoiditis or Balado Syndrome (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

Authored two important books: with Elizabeth Franke Das Corpus Geniculatum Externum  (1937) with international acclaim and with L. Romero & P. Noiseux Human Encephalogram (1939)