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Historical Bibliography Updated: August 7, 2021

Removal of the right lobe of the thyroid gland.

Publication Details

Lancet, 2, 351-52. 1828 CE–1829 CE.

To Joseph Green, of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, is accredited the first thyroidectomy, the patient succumbing 15 days later from sepsis.

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Entry Number#3814
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/id/4829
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLremoval-of-the-right-lobe-of-the-thyroid-gland

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: London