Asa G Yancey: The first to describe a modification of the Swenson Technique for Hirschsprung disease

Denzel Woode; Jeffrey Avansino; Robert Sawin; Edward E Cornwell 3rd; John Waldhausen; Kenneth W Gow

doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.03.030

Asa G Yancey: The first to describe a modification of the Swenson Technique for Hirschsprung disease

J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Aug;57(8):1701-1703. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.03.030. Epub 2022 Apr 8.

Authors

Denzel Woode¹, Jeffrey Avansino², Robert Sawin², Edward E Cornwell 3rd³, John Waldhausen², Kenneth W Gow⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA.
³ Howard University Hospital, General/Trauma Critical Care, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 35487794
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.03.030

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Hirschsprung; Pull-through; Soave; Yancey.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Hirschsprung Disease* / complications
Hirschsprung Disease* / surgery
Humans
Infant
Male
Postoperative Complications / etiology
Rectum / surgery