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Liverpool Larry’s Meeting Minutes 01/02/2024 In attendance: Minutes taken by Katie SLT Team: Katie and Will MSC Speech and Language Therapy student Welcome and Introductions Welcome everyone and thank you to everyone who attended. Apologies to the members who where unable to attend. Steve also kindly spoke to a new laryngectomy patient who came back…
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  First total laryngectomy by Theodor Billroth was 150 years ago. On December 31, 1873, in the Vienna surgery clinic, the German surgeon Theodor Billroth managed what no previous surgeon had been able to: complete ablation of the larynx in a human being, which quickly came to be known as “total laryngectomy”, without harmful immediate…
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