Book Review: Reconstruction of the Head and Neck: A Defect-Oriented Approach
Editor: Eric M. Genden, MD. Medical Illustrator: Scott M. Kessler, MD. Publisher: Thieme – 180 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani It is not clear when head and neck reconstructive surgery actually began, Dr. Richard E. Hayden, who wrote the Foreword to this book, points out. He is chairman and professor at the department of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. The earliest instance he mentions of a procedure in this field was in 1959 when Seidenberg “reconstructed a total laryngopharyngectomy defect with a vascularized jejunal segment.” Other procedures were performed in 1963 and...
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