Stuttgart, New York, Georg Thieme Verlag, 1991, gr.-4°, VIII. 124 pp., mit 164 Abbildungen, orig. Leinenband. First Edition! With a contribution on pathology by Karl Perzin. Dr. John J. Conley (1912-1999), "a New York surgeon who made important contributions to the treatment of cancers of the head and neck, died on Sept. 21 in a hospital in Manhattan. He was 87 and lived on the Upper West Side. Dr. Conley, an otolaryngologist, developed operations for improving the speech of patients who had lost their voice boxes to cancer and for reconstruction after the loss of the jawbone to cancer. He also developed operations for rehabilitating the larynx and for grafting facial nerves. In addition, he developed the idea of single-stage rehabilitation after extensive head and neck surgery -- that is, one-stage reconstruction by moving both skin and muscle to use in the reconstruction. Many of Dr. Conley's innovations came in the 1960's and early 1970's. But as an Army surgeon in World War II, he pioneered methods of reconstructing the cheek and the face. In the early 1990's, he founded the John Conley Foundation for Ethics and Philosophy in Medicine. Dr. Conley was the first president of the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery and president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery." Eric Pace, New York Times, Oct. 2, 1999. N° de ref. del artículo 67216