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C. Everett Koop performing an operation at Yodogawa Hospital in Osaka, Japan
Date:
15 November 1961
Description:
In this photograph, Koop is demonstrating a pull-through, the surgical pulling of one segment of intestine through another segment not connected to the first. Koop was visiting Japan to the attend the First International Congress of Therapy.
Location:
Folder: Scrapbook #90
Rights:
Courtesy of C. Everett Koop.
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