Early Achievements in Pediatric Surgery at Vanderbilt University Hospital: Rollin Daniel, Jr., and James Kirtley, Jr.

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Vanderbilt University was the site of two important operations that have been largely overlooked in the history of pediatric surgery. In November 1943 Rollin Daniel, Jr., was the third surgeon in the world and the first in the South to have a newborn infant survive after primary repair of esophageal atresia (EA) with tracheoesophageal atresia (TEF; EA/TEF). Daniel's insight was to expose the anomaly from the right side of the mediastinum, the standard exposure where the aorta is in its usual left-sided position.

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