Word: esophagus
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...spite of an operation five years ago for removal of a cyst on her esophagus that endangered her voice. Today Contralto Anderson can almost equal the vocal glory of her best years...
...years ago today, Ellsworth P. Van Rensselaer Jones, a former Crimed, punctured his esophagus with the metatarsal bone of a turkey as he tripped over a rock at Plymouth. In fitting memory to this valiant biology editor, there will be no Crime tomorrow...
...operating table was a normal, squalling, blue-eyed infant except for one thing: he had been born without an esophagus. Surgeons cut into the abdomen, made an opening in the stomach wall so that the baby could be fed by tube. Then they sat back and hoped for the best...
Five years ago, when Robert was eleven, surgeons at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center attempted a rare operation to give him an esophagus. In the first stage, a two-foot piece of his intestine was taken out and joined to the stomach; the free end of the intestine was led up toward the throat. In the second phase, a few days later, the free end was to be joined to the stub of esophagus that Robert was born with. But when a chest incision was made, the free end could not be found. Robert continued with his rubber...
...weeks ago, Robert felt a tightening in his chest whenever he took water through his tube. The doctors at Columbia decided on a second operation. This time there were no slipups. There, curled in his chest, was the free end of the makeshift esophagus, still healthy and unshriveled. After six hours in the operating room, Robert was wheeled out with a working esophagus. Last week he swallowed the first home-cooked square meal of his life: turkey and trimmings topped off with ice cream and cake...