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Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 2015 Volume 143, Issue 1-2, Pages: 105-107
https://doi.org/10.2298/SARH1502105A
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Giovanni Battista Monteggia (1762-1815)

Anđelković Slađana (Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Belgrade + School of Medicine, Belgrade)
Vučković Čedo (Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Belgrade)
Milutinović Suzana (Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Belgrade)
Palibrk Tomislav (Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Belgrade)
Kadija Marko (Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Belgrade + School of Medicine, Belgrade)
Bumbaširević Marko (Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Belgrade + School of Medicine, Belgrade)

Giovanni Battista Monteggia was born in Laverne on the 8th of August 1762. Monteggia started his education in the School of Surgery at the Hospital Maggiore in Milano in 1779. This hospital was called “Big House” and it is one of the oldest medical institutions in Italy. He passed exam in surgery in 1781. Monteggia was promoted to assistant at surgery in Maggiore hospital in 1790. He was among the first who gave a complete clinical description of polio. He described traumatic hip dislocation and special forearm fracture which was named after him. Strictly speaking, a Monteggia fracture is a fracture of the proximal third of the ulna with an anterior dislocation of the radial head. Monteggia became a member of the renewed Institute of Science, Literature and Art in Milano in 1813.

Keywords: Monteggia, forearm fracture, Maggiore hospital