Ambroise Paré was a French barber-surgeon who is considered one of the fathers of modern surgery. At that time, barber-surgeons performed surgery but were held in lower esteem than physicians, who did not perform surgery. Paré spent most of his career working on the battlefield on wounded ...
The objective of our case series is to show that general surgeons trained in surgical endoscopy can perform this procedure with favorable outcomes.#A retrospective review of peroral cricopharyngeal myotomies performed at Spectrum Health hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan by a single surgical endo...