title: Sir Henry Trentham Butlin: the father of British head and neck surgery.
abstract: Sir Henry Butlin was our first pioneer in head and neck surgery. Though the man himself has been all but lost to history, surgeons in the UK and the USA are returning to the technique of selective neck dissection that he first described over a century ago.
authors.affiliation: Guy's Hospital Dental School, London, UK.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Uttley
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McGurk
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D006257:Head / Q000601:surgery; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009333:Neck / Q000601:surgery; D037981:Neck Dissection / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom