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Foresight and courage: Levi Cooper Lane, MD, a model head and neck surgeon
1Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Room 62-132 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1624, USA.
The Laryngoscope
|October 2, 2003
Abstract
Objectives:
To detail the life and achievements of Levi Cooper Lane, MD, author of the first American textbook on surgery of the head and neck.
Methods:
Literature search and analysis.
Results/Conclusions:
While some of Lane's observations have been diluted by the passage of time, the lessons imparted by his life and work merit continued study by contemporary head and neck surgeons.