Stomach or Colon for Esophageal Replacement? What Prof Haider Thought!

Abstract

Prof Syed Zafar Haider has been the most influential surgical trainer in the history of Pakistani surgical community. He has influenced number of current and past surgical giants with his own style, quality and discipline and fortunately me as well. He pioneered transhiatal esophagectomy in Pakistan. In this brief writing I would share a letter written by Mark Orringer to Prof Haider weighing stomach vs colon for esophageal replacement. This letter here attached in this writing is that letter written by Dr Orringer from University of Michigan to Shah sb. This is a glimpse of historic correspondence between two surgical giants, in which they weigh colon vs. stomach for esophageal replacement.