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F. John Lewis, MD: 1916-1993
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5247, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
F. John Lewis performed the first successful open heart operation in 1952. He was the first full-time member of the faculty of surgery at Northwestern University. This article gives a brief biography of this great surgeon.