Dr. Claude C. Craighead of New Orleans is the new president of the Surgical Association of Louisiana.
He was named yesterday to succeed Dr. Walter F. Becker
at the association's annual meeting at the Sheraton-Oiarles hotel.
Other officers are Dr. Donald B. Williams of Lafayette, vice-president, Dr. Richard L. Buck, secretary, and Dr. J. Morgan Lyons, treasurer, both of New Orleans.
A St. Louis surgeon said an operation to bypass the urinary bladder has opened fields of surgery never before possible. Method of Diversion
Dr. Eugene M. Bricker said the method of diversion involves transplanting urethral tubes from the kidneys to a short segment of the intestine. The operation is usually performed for cancer, he said, but is useful in counteracting other disease conditions.
Dr. Bricker is associate professor of surgery at Washington university school of medicine and assistant surgeon at Barnes hospital.
"We have found that patients can lead normal lives, and the operation carries little risk and little inconvenience," he said.
Although the operation is not! historically new, he said, he developed it in 1950 "at a time when
it could be more successfully executed." Estimates Risk
Dr. Bricker estimated the risk to long-term life expectancy as about 2 per cent, adding that surgeons are continuing to perfect technical aspects of the operation.
Other speakers included Dr. Ben Eiseman, chairman of surgery at the University of Kentucky medical school, and surgeons from the Tulane and Louisiana State university medical schools.
