The Eloesser flap is a surgical procedure developed by Dr. Leo Eloesser in 1935 at the San Francisco General Hospital.[1] It was originally intended to aid with drainage of tuberculous empyemas, since at the time there were no effective medications to treat tuberculosis. The procedure was used extensively[2] until the development of effective chemotherapy for tuberculosis in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[3] It is still used occasionally for chronic empyemas.[4][5]
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