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Preparing for the Future

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:556-560.

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INTRODUCTION

The origin of head and neck surgery can be traced back to Sushruta Samhita, when a glabellar flap was described by Sushruta for reconstruction of the nose.¹ Not much has been described in history over the subsequent several centuries until a systematic description of the importance of cervical lymph nodes in head and neck cancer was reported by Maximilian von Chelius² in 1847. Similarly, Warren³ recommended excision of cervical lymph nodes in the submandibular triangle for tongue cancer to improve the curability of that cancer. The American laryngologist Jacob Da Silva Solis-Cohen⁴ described the first curative partial laryngectomy for malignant disease in 1869 in Philadelphia, and the first total laryngectomy was reported by Theodore Billroth⁵ from Vienna in 1874. Theodore Kocher was the first surgeon ever to have received a Nobel Prize for his immense experience in thyroid surgery in 1909.⁶ The first textbook on head and neck surgery was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

LOOKING BACK: THE 20TH CENTURY

LOOKING AHEAD: THE 21ST CENTURY

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Jatin P. Shah, MD

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