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Ann Thorac Surg 1989;48:736-737
© 1989 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Lord Brock—The direct approach

Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California USA

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The contributions of Sir Russell Brock to the early development of cardiac surgery are multiple. However, one of the most telling was his description of 3 cases of pulmonary stenosis in 1943 treated by direct transventricular valvulotomy. His subsequent treatise, The Anatomy of Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis, published in 1957, outlined this direct approach to cardiac lesions, a philosophy commonly adopted in modern care of cardiac lesions and a major contribution to cardiac surgical thinking.

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