Biography

Carlos María Squirru, Argentine surgeon (La Plata 22 March 1891 – ?)

From Italian descent

With E. Finocchietto described mixed inguinal hernia (1917) and developed Squirru-Finocchietto method for repair of inguinal hernia

Reported visualization of the biliary tract incidental to injection of lipiodol being the first successful attempt at cholangiography

With E.L. Lanari. Roentgenographs of biliary passages. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg. 37:125, 1924  

Eponym of Squirru non-total emasculation