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Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab

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Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab was an Egyptian gastro-intestinal surgeon. He is well known for the description of his operation Hassab’s decongestion operation for the treatment of oesophageal varices as a result of portal hypertension. Dr. Hassab was one of the surgery professors in medicine school at Alexandria University in Egypt and his operation is proved to be one of the most effective operations to treat bleeding varices and is now used widely in the world to treat such patients.

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  • Hassab Operation, which is the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices, is taught in all surgery world books.

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