The First Laryngectomy

  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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