title: Lord Brock--the direct approach.
abstract: 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 1948 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0118.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Turley
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000266:history / Q000601:surgery*; D006113:United Kingdom