Lelio Olchese Zeno, Argentine plastic surgeon and traumatologist (Torino 16 March 1890 – Rosario 21 October 1968)

Son of Piamontese immigrants

Worked in the USSR in the first half of 1930s being recognized as father of traumatology in Russia

With Emilio Pizarro Crespo wrote Medicina Psicosomatica (1945), in which enunciated the concept of eubiatry or integral medicine

Enunciated the idea of fracture callus as a cicatricial disease and the concept of “autogenous welding”

First to use skin-free graft of the pinna for nasal correction

Injerto libre de piel acolchada em las pequenãs rinoplastias. Anales de Cirurgia 7:295-9, 1941

DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES

Mayo-Zeno technique of umbilical herniorrhaphy (1916)

Bowman-Zeno technique (a technique for treating supracondylar fractures of child elbow using zenith traction)

Zeno method for treatment of burnings employing plaster dressings in Tratamiento de las quemaduras mediante vendaje de yeso. Med. Ibera 30(1):284, 1986

Treatment of vertebral bodies fractures by hyper-extension method

New technique in the treatment of fractures of the forearm. J. Bone & Joint Surg. (1938)

LINKS

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https://bvs.smu.org.uy/servicios/ToC/hector%20ardao%20VERSION%208%20baja.pdf

His brother Artemio Zeno, surgeon (Buenos Aires 1884 – Rosario 15 November 1935) was member of Royal Academy of Sciences of London and Correspondent Member of Société de Chirurgie de Paris