José Verocay (Paysandú 1876 - Eichwald/Dubí, Bohemia 1927) was a Uruguayan anatomopathologist, recognized worldwide as "Prague's pathologist" (Fig. 1). In 1910, he described, for the first time, the morphological structure later called Verocay's bodies, which are used for diagnosing schwannoma. He spent the end of the XIXth century and the beginning of XXth century in Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. During the last years of his life, he tried unsuccessfully to reintegrate himself into the Uruguayan academic community. In 1927, he passed away in Eichwald, Teplitz district, Bohemia. Keywords: Prague's pathologist - Veroca y - Verocay's bodies.
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José Verocay (Paysandú 1876 - Eichwald/Dubí, Bohemia 1927) was a Uruguayan anatomopathologist, recognized worldwide as "Prague's pathologist" (Fig. 1). In 1910, he described, for the first time, the morphological structure later called Verocay's bodies, which are used for diagnosing schwannoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLearning from eponyms: Jose Verocay and Verocay bodies, Antoni A and B areas, Nils Antoni and Schwannomas.
Indian Dermatol Online J
September 2012
Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mahim, Mumbai, India.
Schwannomas are benign peripheral nerve sheath neoplasms composed almost entirely of Schwann cells and are diagnosed histopathologically by the presence of singular architectural patterns called Antoni A and Antoni B areas. These were described first in 1920 by the Swedish neurologist Nils Antoni. The Antoni A tissue is highly cellular and made up of palisades of Schwann cell nuclei, a pattern first described in 1910 by the Uruguayan neuro-pathologist Jose Verocay and are known as Verocay bodies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[José Juan Verocay, "el patólogo de Praga" (on occasion of the 100th anniversary of his habilitation in Prague)].
Cesk Patol
April 2012
Univerzity Karlovy v Praze.
José Juan Verocay was born on June 16, 1876 in Paysandú, Uruguay to Italian immigrants; in 1887 they sent him to Cortina d'Ampezzo to learn languages first; he then graduated from the high school in Trento (1897) and from the German Medical Faculty in Prague (1904) where he, a disciple of Hanns Chiari, became the 1st demonstrator (1902), 3rd (1904) to 1st assistant (1905), and volunteer (from 1908) at the Department of Pathological Anatomy. He repeatedly substituted the professors Chiari (until 1906), Kretz (1907-1910), and Ghon (from 1910) during their absence. Anomalies and neoplasms prevailed among his research subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[José Verocay. Verocay neurinomas and bodies and other contributions to medicine].
Rev Neurol
May 2005
Departamento de Patología, Hospital ABC, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico DF, Mexico.
Aims: To describe the academic contributions to pathology and the biography of José Verocay (1876-1927), and to comment on the differential diagnosis of Verocay bodies.
Development: José Juan Verocay was an Uruguayan-born pathologist that worked at the Institute of Pathology in Prague under the figures of Chiari, Kretz and Ghon. He described in 1910 the structures today known as 'Verocay bodies', in a paper on neurofibromas.
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