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