Miguel Canela Lázaro

Miguel Canela Lázaro was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on September 29, 1894, the son of Pedro Canela (also born in Santiago) and Dolores Antonia Lázaro (a Spaniard). He died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 1, 1977. [1] The Rouvière and Canela ligament (shown in Fig. 15 of "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay" [2]) is named after him and his supervisor at the University of Paris, Henri Rouvière, for their joint work .[3]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Canela and the second or maternal family name is Lázaro.

He was also a conservationist and a diplomat. He received both a surveyor (1917) and medicine doctorate (1924) degrees from the University of Santo Domingo.[1]

Notes
  1. Zaglul Emuldesi, Antonio (1998), Ciencia y Humildad: Biografía del Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro (in Spanish), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Editora Taller
  2. Golanó, Pau; et al. (Jan 2010), "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay", Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, Springer-Verlag / Heidelberg, 18 (5): 557–69, doi:10.1007/s00167-010-1100-x, PMC 2855022, PMID 20309522
  3. Rouvière, Henri; Canela, Miguel (1932), "Le Ligament péroneo-astragalo-calcanéen", Annales d'Anatomie Pathologique, 9: 745


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