Fracture of the base of the first metacarpal and a variation that has not yet been described. 1910.

With the publication of his article Fracture de la base du premier metacarpien, Silvio Rolando became the third Milanese surgeon to have a fracture named after him, a distinction he shares with Monteggia and Galeazzi. Like his colleagues, Rolando was a general surgeon. During a period of 30 years he published papers in Italian and French medical periodicals on a wide variety of surgical conditions. Rolando was a member of the Societe Internationale de Chirurgie.