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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:1668
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the editor

Short esophagi and a long career

Fernando Augusto Mardiros Herbella, MDa

a Esophagus Division, Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

To the Editor:

Professor J. Leigh Collis, a prominent surgeon, made several contributions to the development of the thoracic and cardiac surgery. However, he was immortalized and known worldwide for his work on gastroplasty, originally published in this Journal 46 years ago.1

I contacted by letter the then-90-year-old Professor Collis, asking for data to be used in an article concerning the history of esophageal surgery. I was honored with a concerned and pleasant reply. After our last contact, however, I received the grievous notice that Professor Collis had died on February 4, 2003.

It is fitting to pay homage to this singular character in the history of the esophageal surgery in the same Journal that immortalized him.

References

  1. Collis JL. An operation for hiatus hernia with short esophagus. J Thorac Surg. 1957;14:768–773




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