Foresight and courage: Levi Cooper Lane, MD, a model head and neck surgeon.
OBJECTIVE
To detail the life and achievements of Levi Cooper Lane, MD, author of the first American textbook on surgery of the head and neck.


METHODS
Literature search and analysis.


CONCLUSIONS
While some of Lane's observations have been diluted by the passage of time, the lessons imparted by his life and work merit continued study by contemporary head and neck surgeons.
Abemayor
Elliot
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Division of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Room 62-132 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1624, USA.
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