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GREEN, Joseph Henry

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Removal of the right lobe of the thyroid gland.

Lancet, 2, 351-52, 1828 – 1829.

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



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY › Thyroid