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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;31:140. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.10.010
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Letters to the Editor

Reply to Giri and Sarkar

Luca Ampollini*, Antonio Bobbio

Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

Received 9 October 2006; accepted 11 October 2006.

* Corresponding author. Address: U.O. Chirurgia Toracica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Viale Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy. Tel.: +39 03498483849; fax: +39 0521703559. (Email: lucampollini@inwind.it).

Key Words: Boerhaave syndrome • Spontaneous oesophageal perforation • Oesophageal rupture

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We would like to thank Giri and Sarkar [1] from Sheffield for their interest in our images case. Medical eponymous for post emetic rupture of the oesophagus scarcely represents the tremendous heritage of Herman Boerhaave (1668 Voorhout–1738 Leiden) on contemporary human science. In 1724, printed by Officine Boutesteniana in Lugdunum Batavorum (the Roman appellation of the city of Leiden in Netherlands, not to be confused with Lugdunum ‘Gallorum’ city of Lyon in France), H. Boerhaave reported ‘Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbis historia. Secundum medicae artis leges conscripta’ that could be translated as ‘History of an atrocious disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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