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01-03-2017 | Cover Editorial
The Italian Giuseppe Muscatello (1866–1951) and his contributions to our understanding of childhood spina bifida aperta and occulta
Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 3/2017
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Giuseppe Muscatello (Fig. 1) was born in 1866 on Sicily. He and his wife, Elena, had four children. In 1889, he received his medical degree from the University of Naples [1]. He studied surgery from 1889 to 1892 in Padua. He first worked in Strasbourg, supervised by Georg Albert Lücke, and then at the Institute of Pathology under renowned pathologist, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen [2]. He moved to Berlin where he worked in surgery under Vincenz Czerny and in pathology under Julius Arnold of Arnold-Chiari malformation fame [3].
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Photograph of Giuseppe Muscatello (1866–1951). Source: http://dati.camera.it/ocd/persona.rdf/pr10011
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