Biography
Humberto Horacio Carelli Capece, Argentine radiologist (Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province 08 November 1882 – Buenos Aires 30 January 1963)
Described pneumoretroperitoneum technique (translumbar perirenal insufflation) independent of Paul Rosenstein (1921) later improved (1947)
El neumoperitoneo en la exploración radiologica del abdome. Anales Fac. Med. Bs. Aires (1921)
Pneumoperitoneum. Amer. J. Roentgenol. 10:259-79, 1923
Developed pneumopyelography
With Enrique H. Sordelli. Un Nuevo procedimiento para explorer el riñon. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg. 34:424-5, 1921
With Roberto Gandulfo & Alberto Ocampo conceived ginecography (a combination of pneumoretroperitoneum and hysterosalpingography techniques) in 1924 before Stein & Arens (1926)
La exploración radiologica en ginecologia. La Semana medica (1925)
With Jaime R. Costa created Costa-Carelli horizontal procedure for producing dental radiographs
Designed various medical instruments such as Carelli radiological table and Carelli clamp
Designed a device to prevent contrast material reflux and fix the cervix during the procedure
Authored an Atlas of Hysterosalpingography (1935)