Abstract

The aim of this historical vignette is to recall the importance of the German surgeon Themistocles Gluck in the development of total laryngectomy with primary closure of the pharyngeal orifice, a technique proposed a few years after Theodor Billroth's first total laryngectomy in 1873.

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