27.02.2024 | Letter to the Editor
Obituary: Leslie Harold Blumgart
verfasst von:
H. Ramesh
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology
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Sonderheft 2/2024
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Excerpt
In the year 1981, I secured a place in the General Surgery Residency Program at the prestigious Post Graduate Institute (PGI) in Chandigarh, India. As a young trainee, I was inundated by biliary surgery and my frequent visits to the library and the operation theatre led me to a book called” Clinical Surgery International”. This series of volumes included Biliary Surgery by Leslie Harold Blumgart (volume 5) and the vast numbers of biliary reconstructions soon adopted the Voyles-Blumgart technique of placing the anterior sutures before the posterior sutures (circa 1982), a technique that is still in use today. That was the first time I encountered “Blumgart”, but over the next four decades, I had the privilege of coming into close contact with the man himself. …