Word: incisional
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There was another wound in the back of the President's neck, approximately 5½ in. below the right mastoid process. The doctors immediately saw that it was a wound of entrance, but they became puzzled when they could find neither a bullet, an extended bullet path, nor an...
Hours of Decision. The operation began at 7:40 a.m. With a ten-inch incision across his chest, DeRudder was hooked up to a heart-lung machine. And then, as five cameras recorded every step, the surgeons opened his left auricle. They replaced the diseased valve, but even this promised...
Now, Dr. Vineberg told the cardiologists, he has combined this technique with an even more extensive operation for heart-disease victims who have blocks in two or three coronaries. In addition to implanting the mammary artery, Dr. Vineberg now opens the heart sac and removes all of its inner layer...
Died. George H. Dixon, 65, author of the syndicated "Washington Scene," a grab bag column of nonpolitical cocktail-party and press-conference observations appearing daily since 1944; following a heart attack; in Washington. Sometimes sharp, more often corny, Dixon took aim at "the guy in the silk hat," up to...
Downstate's Dr. Martin Kaplitt, 26, and Dr. Sol Sobel, 40, offered an operation that was both simpler and quicker than standard techniques. Along with Kings County Hospital's Dr. Philip Sawyer, they clamped off the diseased section at either end, then injected carbon dioxide between the outer...