Asa G Yancey:The First to Describe a Modification of the Swenson Technique for Hirschsprung Disease
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Denzel Woode, Jeffrey Avansino, Robert Sawin, Edward E Cornwell III, John Waldhausen, Kenneth W Gow
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Hirschsprung disease is a common disease treated by surgeons using different approaches. One approach is eponymously ascribed to Franco Soave and Scott Boley involving a pull-through of ganglionated colon through a distal portion of aganglionated rectum. However, more recent evidence has shown that this same technique was described twelve years before by Asa Yancey, a black surgeon. A review of the evidence follows with a focus on why Yancey may not have rightly received the credit that was due to him.
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