Biography
Pablo Luis Mirizzi Agueda, Argentine surgeon (Cordoba 25 January 1893 – Cordoba 28 August 1964)
Son of Italian immigrants
Authored over 200 works
Conceived intraoperative cholangiography or mirizzigraphy
With C. Quiroga Losada. La exploración de las vias biliares principales en el curso de la operación. (1931)
Described Mirizzi syndrome
Physiologic sphincter of the hepatic bile duct. Arch. Surg. 41:1325-33, 1940
Established primary suture for treatment of choledocus (1942)
Described Mirizzi sign (1942) and Mirizzi test or fistulography
Designed a radio surgical table
Eponym of Randall-Mirizzi forceps for calculi
HONORS
President, International Congress of Surgery, Munich (1959)