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Ramon Carrillo
Ramon Carrillo (March 7 1906 - 20 December 1956), was an Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, and public health physician born in Santiago del Estero.
Career in neurosurgery and neurobiology
Between 1930 and 1945 he contributed valuable original research about the brain cells which are not neurons—named glial cells—and the method for staining and observing them under the microscope, as well as on their evolutionary origin (phylogeny), and the comparative anatomy of the brain across the several classes of vertebrates. In the same period Ramon Carrillo contributed novel techniques for neurological diagnosis: he refined iodine-contrasted ventriculography, called iodoventriculography, and discovered signs in ...
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