Giovanni Battista Monteggia (1762-1815)
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Giovanni Battista Monteggia was born in Laverne on the 8th of August 1762.
Monteggia started his education in the School of Surgery at the Hospital
Maggiore in Milano in 1779. This hospital was called “Big House” and it is
one of the oldest medical institutions in Italy. He passed exam in surgery in
1781. Monteggia was promoted to assistant at surgery in Maggiore hospital in
1790. He was among the first who gave a complete clinical description of
polio. He described traumatic hip dislocation and special forearm fracture
which was named after him. Strictly speaking, a Monteggia fracture is a
fracture of the proximal third of the ulna with an anterior dislocation of
the radial head. Monteggia became a member of the renewed Institute of
Science, Literature and Art in Milano in 1813.
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