J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 83(9): 813-816, 1982

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Report on the annual meeting

AN ESSENTIAL OF SURGERY

One of the most imprtant principles in surgery is to induce or support the ability of spontaneous healing that everybody is endowed with nature. This idea had always been kept in my mind when I engaged in the development of new surgical procedures, e.g. resection of the carotid body as a treatment of bronchial asthma, esophagojejunostomy without suturing for esophageal carcinoma and modification of Billroth-Ⅰmethod in which I intended to prevent anastomotic insufficiency by fixing the terminal end of the stomach on the head of the pancreas. All of these aimed at being powerful help for the spontaneous healing of the wound.
The methods themselves may become out-of-date after many years, but the way of thinking still remains vividly as a basis of surgery.

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