Milestones in chest surgery

The general surgery milestones project.

Milestones in the Evolution of Hepatic Surgery

This paper describes the rapid evolution of modern liver surgery, starting in the middle of the twentieth century. Claude Couinaud studied and described the segmental anatomy of the liver, Thomas Starzl performed the first liver transplantations, and Henri Bismuth introduced the concept of anatomical resections. Hepatic surgery has developed significantly since those early days. To date, innova...

Milestones in surgery: 60 years of open heart surgery.

Long periods of experimental research signify the struggle for the goal to substitute the functions of heart and lungs by a machine. In 1931, John Heysham Gibbon, a young surgeon in Boston began animal experiments concentrating on this task. After almost 20 years he succeeded, in May 1953, he performed the first successful open heart operation using a heart-lung machine in the world in Philadel...

[Ambulatory chest surgery].

as any therapeutic or diagnostic surgical procedure performed under general, regional, or local anesthesia, with or without sedation, which requires short-stay postoperative care rather than admission to hospital. According to the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery, the procedure should not be urgent, should be performed within a single normal working day, and should not require m...

Surgery of chest wall deformities.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the medium-term results of 77 surgical corrections in patients with chest wall deformities, 53 (68.8%) with pectus excavatum and 24 with pectus carinatum, operated upon from 1985 to 1994. METHODS The mean age of the patients was 14.7 years (4-39 years) and 77% were younger than 15 years of age. There were 59 male (76.7%) and 18 female patients. Only four had a family his...