Charles Bernard Puestow (1902-1973): American surgeon and commander of the 27th Evacuation Hospital during the Second World War.
Dr. Charles Bernard Puestow (1902-1973) was an American surgeon who is well known for developing the longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy, which is known as the "Puestow procedure" in his honor. Puestow served in the American military during the Second World War and commanded the 27th Evacuation Hospital, which provided medical and surgical services to wounded individuals in Europe and North Africa. In 1946, he founded the surgical residency training program at the Hines Veterans Hospital, which was the first such program in the United States based at a veterans hospital.
1 Department of Psychiatry, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA.
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2 Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
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Charles Puestow; Second World War; pancreas; surgery