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The 2006 Hayes Martin Lecture

Keith S. Heller, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(7):639-643.

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INTRODUCTION

Hayes Martin died on Christmas Day 1977. I was a fellow on the head and neck service at Memorial Hospital, New York, New York, at that time. I never met Dr Martin because he had been an invalid for many years. I felt his influence constantly, though, because my teachers, my attending physicians, had all been his students, his fellows, or his colleagues. Dr Martin's first article, co-written in 1928 with Dr Quick, described how to perform a gastrostomy.¹ We had little else to offer our patients at that time. His last article, published in 1962, emphasized the importance of tying 1-handed knots to expedite the performance of head and neck surgical procedures.² There is no one procedure that we can attribute to Dr Martin. Perhaps his most important single contribution to head and neck oncology was his recognition of the value of fine-needle aspiration biopsy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Affiliation: Division of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York.