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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY
Volume 57, Issue 8, Pages 1701-1703Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.03.030
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Soave; Hirschsprung; Pull-through; Yancey
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Hirschsprung disease, a common disease treated by surgeons, has multiple approaches. The Soave-Boley approach involves a pull-through of ganglionated colon through a distal portion of aganglionated rectum. However, evidence suggests that this technique was previously described by Asa Yancey, a black surgeon.
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 because of him. (C) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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