Pietro Grocco

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Pietro Grocco (1856-1926)

Pietro Grocco (27 June 1856, Albonese - 12 February 1916, Courmayeur) was an Italian physician.

Background

In 1879 Grocco received his medical doctorate from the University of Pavia, afterwards continuing his education in Paris and Vienna. In 1884 he was appointed director of special pathology at the University of Perugia, followed by an appointment as chair of clinical medicine at Pisa (1888).

From 1892 Grocco served as a professor in Florence, where among his many accomplishments, he founded a rabies institute.^[1] In 1892 he was also named government inspector and medical director of the baths at Montecatini.

Grocco's Triangle

In 1902 he described "Grocco's triangle", a triangular area of paravertebral dullness on the side opposite a pleural effusion.^[2]^[3] His name is also associated with "Grocco's sign", defined as acute dilatation of the heart following a muscle effort.^[4]

Selected writings

Triangolo paravertebrale opposto nella pleurite essudativa. Lavori dei congressi di medicina interna, Rome, 1902, 12 (1903): 190. - Grocco's triangle described.
Lezioni di clinica medica. Milan, 1905 - Lessons of clinical medicine.

References

Treccani.it (biography)
Pietro Grocco @ Who Named It

↑ Google Books British medical journal, Volume 1, Pages 1-772
↑ An Introduction to the history of medicine by Fielding Hudson Garrison
↑ Grocco-Rauchfuss triangle @ Who Named It
↑ Grocco's sign @ Who Named It

Persondata
Name	Grocco, Pietro
Alternative names
Short description	Italian physician
Date of birth	June 27, 1856
Place of birth
Date of death	February 12, 1916
Place of death

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