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Evarts A. Graham was an American thoracic surgeon who performed the first successful one-stage pneumonectomy for lung cancer in 1933. He led the surgical department at Washington University in St. Louis and contributed to the development of operations involving the chest and lungs. With Ernest Wynde...
German surgeon who built a negative-pressure chamber in 1904 to allow chest surgery without lung collapse, an innovation that founded modern thoracic surgery.
Cameron Haight was an American thoracic surgeon associated with the University of Michigan. In 1941, he performed the first successful primary repair of esophageal atresia with a tracheoesophageal fistula in a newborn, directly joining the separated portions of the esophagus and closing the abnormal...
Thomas W. Shields was an American thoracic surgeon and medical editor closely associated with the textbook General Thoracic Surgery. Through successive editions, the reference brought together material on diseases and operations involving the lungs, esophagus, chest wall, mediastinum, and related st...
Richard H. Overholt was an American thoracic surgeon known for advancing operations on the lungs during the twentieth century. His work helped establish pulmonary resection, including the anatomical removal of individual bronchopulmonary segments, as a practical alternative to removing an entire lun...
Egyptian-American thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center renowned for research on surgical staging and outcomes in lung cancer treatment.
David Sugarbaker was an American thoracic surgeon known for treating malignant pleural mesothelioma, a cancer affecting the lining around the lungs. He developed specialist programs that combined major surgery with chemotherapy and radiation, and he advocated extrapleural pneumonectomy for carefully...
