Biography

Raul Floreal Matera Granata, Argentine neurosurgeon (Buenos Aires 07 May 1915 – Buenos Aires 21 March 1994)

From Calabrese father

DEVELOPED METHODS

With R. Carrillo. Nueva tecnica operatoria minima. Leucotomia selectiva en el dolor visceral. Seara Medica 5(2-4):133-42, 1950

Antibioticos y quimioterarapicos en neurocirurgia. Tecnica de su empleo. Resultados terapeuticos (Antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents in neurosurgery: technic and use and therapeutic results). Dia Med. 25(5):92-6, 1953

DESCRIBED SIGNS

Signos yodoventriculograficos en las aracnoiditis encefalicas. Rev. Neurol. Bs. Aires 11(3):231-83, 1946

Matera-Insausti sign (a painful paravertebral percussion)