Salomão Azar Chaib, Brazilian surgeon (Teresina 25 September 1918 – São Paulo 26 November 1993)

From Syrian ancestry 

Authored about 45 works

Created Chaib technique or azigo portal disconnection

With S.L. Souza Lessa, I. Cecconello, V.N. Felix & E. Chaib. A new procedure for treatment of bleeding esophageal varices by transgastric azigo portal disconnection. Int. Surg. 68: 353, 1983

A modification of Heller operation

Tratamento cirúrgico do megaesôfago, uma nova modificação da operação de Heller. Ver. Col. Bras. Cir. 10:169-73, 1983