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Leonardo Giaccai
Physician in Lebanon.
Associated eponyms:
Giaccai's syndrome 2
Progressive plantar ulceration resulting in mutilation of feet, associated with sensory disturbances of the extremities.

Hajdu-Cheney disease
An autosomal dominant form of acro-osteolysis.

Biography:
Leonardo Giaccai graduated in medicine in 1937. He was affiliated with the American University of Beirut.
We thank Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- I tumori primitivi delle paretti vasali a proposito di un caso di fibroma dell'arteria splenica.
Archivio "de Vecchi" per l'anatomia patologica e la medicina clinica, 1949, 13: 353-376.
- [A case of craniostenosis with multiple epiphyseal abnormalities and luxations.]
With Hans Ullrich Zellweger (1909-1990) and M. Zabnienska:
Helvetica paediatrica acta, Basel, April 1952, 7 (2): 185-192.
- Osteomyelitis due to Salmonella infection. With H. Idriss.
The Journal of Pediatrics, St. Louis, July 1952, 41 (1):73-78.
- Not available. Revue médicale du Moyen-Orient, Beirut, 1954, 11 (3): 359-364.
- Cleidocranial dysostosis with osteopetrosis. With M. Salaam and H. Zellweger.
Acta Radiologica, Stockholm, 1954, 41: 417-424.
- Acropachidermia con pachiperiostosi. Nuntius radiologicus, Rome, 1954, 20: 800.
- Not available. With H. Zellweger.
Revue médicale du Moyen-Orient, 1955, 12 (1): 9-15.
- [Diagnostic and therapeutic problem of in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix.]
La radiologia medica, Milano, April 1956, 42 (4): 366-277.
- Radiotherapy of cancer of the lung.
Journal médical Libanais, Beyrouth, November 1957, 10 (6): 515-523.
- [Lumbar sciatica caused by disk hernia in presenile and senile age.]
Giornale di gerontologia, Firenze, August 1958, 6 (8): 588-598.
- A simple method for projecting isodose charts of linear radium sources on planes oblique to the longitudinal axis.
The British Journal of Radiology, London, February 1959, 32 (374): 140-142.
- Nuovo contributo clínico cd iconográfico all'osteo-onicodisplasia.
Bollettino e memorie della società Tosco-Umbra di chirurgia, Firenze, 1958, 19: 363.
- Genetic hazard of ionizing radiation.
Journal médical Libanais, Beyrouth, June 1959, 12 :258-271.
- Osteocondrosi deformante della tibia (malattia dij Blount).
[Osteochondrosis deformans of the tibia (Blount's disease).]
La radiologia medica, Milano, November 1959, 45 :1077-1083.
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