Henrique Walter Pinotti

Henrique Walter Pinotti (1929 to 21 June 2010) was a Brazilian physician and gastric surgeon who held a full professorship of surgery at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo. He wrote the book Accesso ao Esôfago Torácico por Transecção Mediana do Diafragma, published in 1999, which deals with reaching the thoracic esophagus by a median cut through the diaphragm. Pinotti became widely known in 1985 when he operated on Tancredo Neves, who had been elected president of Brazil. He died of cancer in São Paulo on 21 June 2010, at the age of 81.