Abstract
Sir .—Playing priority game is always a little risky in clinical medicine. They who claim in print to be first to describe a syndrome, cure a rare disease, or perform a particular will, unless they have done their homework well, find themselves victims of gleeful challenges in theletters to editorcolumn. Takebayashi et al 1 assert that their patient with duodenal atresia and gastric perforation is the second cured by operation, after Ogawa's report 2 of the first successful operation in 1966. When I was Chief Surgical Resident on Pediatric Surgical Service of Thomas V. Santulli, MD, at New York's Babies Hospital in 1962, I had opportunity to repair a gastric perforation and to bypass a duodenal atresia with annular pancreas in a premature female infant. Although Takebayashi et al cite article in which this case was described, 3 they may
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