Primo Dorello

Primo Dorello (1872–1963) was an Italian anatomist. He is best known for identifying Dorello's canal.[1]

Primo Dorello
Born1872
Narni, Umbria, Italy
Died1963
CitizenshipItalian
Known forDorello's canal

Personal life

Dorello was born in 1872 in Narni, Umbria.[2] Dorello studied medicine at the University of Rome in 1897.[2][3] He also had an interest in photography, particularly of Italian architecture.[2][3] He died in 1963.[3][4]

Career

He later became an assistant professor at the University of Rome until 1922.[3] He later went on to become the chair of human anatomy at the University of Perugia, a position he held for 20 years between 1926 and 1946.[2] He remained an emeritus professor during retirement.[3]

Dorello performed dissections of the previously-discovered Gruber ligament.[2][5] These began in 1905.[3][5] Beneath the Gruber ligament, he identified Dorello's canal.[2][6] This contains the abducens nerve (CN VI) and the inferior petrosal sinus.[2] His identification was confirmed years layer.[3] He theorised possible diseases associated with Dorello's canal, including entrapment of the abducens nerve due to inflammation.[7]

Awards and recognitions

Dorello worked on anatomy topics in the Treccani Encyclopaedia.[3] In 1939, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[2][4] He also nominated four scientists for the prize.[8]

References
  1. Kshettry, Varun R.; Lee, Joung H.; Ammirati, Mario (2013-03-01). "The Dorello canal: historical development, controversies in microsurgical anatomy, and clinical implications". Neurosurgical Focus. 34 (3): E4. doi:10.3171/2012.11.FOCUS12344. ISSN 1092-0684. PMID 23451716.
  2. Kshettry, Varun R.; Lee, Joung H.; Ammirati, Mario (March 2013). "The Dorello canal: historical development, controversies in microsurgical anatomy, and clinical implications". Journal of Neurosurgery. 34 (3): E4. doi:10.3171/2012.11.FOCUS12344. PMID 23451716.
  3. Felisati, D; Sperati, G (June 2009). "Gradenigo's syndrome and Dorello's canal". Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica. 29 (3): 169–172. ISSN 0392-100X. PMC 2815357. PMID 20140165.
  4. Ferraro, Fernando Martín; García, Adriana; Mukherji, Suresh K. (2016). "Nombres históricos en anatomía y radiología de cabeza y cuello" (PDF). Fronteras en Medicina (in Spanish). 11 (4): 114–118.
  5. Tsukita, Kazuto; Sakamaki-Tsukita, Haruhi; Suenaga, Toshihiko (4 July 2019). "Isolated Abducens Nerve Palsy due to a Dural Arteriovenous Fistula with Drainage into the Inferior Petrosal Sinus". Journal of Clinical Neurology. 15 (3): 410–412. doi:10.3988/jcn.2019.15.3.410. PMC 6620462. PMID 31286718. S2CID 195843166.
  6. Ambekar, Sudheer; Sonig, Ashish; Nanda, Anil (December 2012). "Dorello's Canal and Gruber's Ligament: Historical Perspective". Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base. 73 (6): 430–433. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1329628. ISSN 2193-6331. PMC 3578596. PMID 24294562.
  7. Valles, Jennie M.; Fekete, Robert (2014). "Gradenigo Syndrome: Unusual Consequence of Otitis Media". Case Reports in Neurology. 6 (2): 197–201. doi:10.1159/000365843. ISSN 1662-680X. PMC 4164058. PMID 25232331.
  8. "Nomination archive". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Committee. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
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