Juan Farill y Solares, Mexican orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 February 1902 – 24 June 1973)
Authored 87 scientific and popular works
Advocated arthrograms of congenitally dislocated hips (1952)
INTRODUCED
Skeletal traction with fixation
The employment of contrast mielography for discal lesions diagnosis
Arteriography for bone tumours diagnosis
TECHNIQUES
Personal therapeutic conduct in the treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip in children. Anal. Ortop. Traum. Montevideo 3:281, 1950
Reduction of congenital dislocation of the hip in children; personal technic. Pediatr. Am. 9(3):97-107, 1951
Orthoradiographic measurement of shortening of the lower extremity; technic. Med. Radiogr. Photogr. 29:32-8, 1953
Tratamiento del pie supino flaccido por tenoplastia del tibia anterior; descripción de técnica (1953)
Tibioperoneal tenoplasty for congenital club-foot with peroneal insufficiency. J. Bone Joint Surg. Am. 38A(2):329-36, 1956
Tratamiento incruento del pie equino por acortamiento de los gemelos. Gac. Med. Mexico 91(4):275-83, 1961
A tendon transfer for the treatment of certain cases of cavus deformity of the foot. J. Bone Joint Surg. (Am.) 45:1779, 1963
Eponym of Farill operation of diaphysectomy