José Benito de la Consolación Izquierdo Esteva, Venezuelan surgeon (Caracas 12 January 1887 – Caracas 03 December 1975)
Authored 57 scientific papers
Developed new surgical techniques
Proposed the extravesical suprapubic prostatectomy or Millin technique later the English surgeon popularized it
Prostatectomia suprapúbica extravesical. Gac. Med. Caracas 21 (23):233-5, 1914
LINKS (bibliography)
http://vitae.ucv.ve/?module=articulo&rv=66&n=2376&m=4&e=2380
His nephews, Francisco Plaza Izquierdo, Venezuelan surgeon and anatomist (Caracas 01 February 1916 - 25 December 2007)
Developed a technique for replacing human arteries using umbilical cord as vascular prosthesis (1962)
El cordón umbilical como substituto de condutor orgânico y tejidos. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cir. 71-2:14-20, 1963
Heteroinjertos vasculares experimentales com cordón umbilical. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cir. 18(5):1069-77, 1964
Utilidad de la vena del cordón umbilical en la reparación de arterias humanas (1983)
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gastroduodenostomia combinada o no con ligadura del piloro en el tratamiento del ulcus gastro-duodenal (1940)
Variación de la arteria femoral profunda
Fasciculo condor epitroclear del pectoral mayor
Luis Plaza Izquierdo, Venezuelan surgeon and anatomist (Caracas 24 May 1920 - 1982)
Developed Yerena-Plaza Izquierdo technique for staining microscopic sections (1969)