4th FY Khoo Memorial Lecture 2008: Nasopharyngeal Cancer Workgroup--the past, the present and the future.

نویسنده

  • Joseph Wee
چکیده

Dr Khoo Fun Yong Dr Khoo Fun Yong, was a radiologist extraordinaire. Besides being the First Asian Head of a Radiology Department in Singapore, he was also the first Asian Head of Radiotherapy, as radiologists in that era practiced both radiodiagnosis as well as radiotherapy. He also had the honor of being the first person in Singapore to report on the radiology of the nasopharynx.1 Dr Khoo was also a historian, and spent a good part of his retirement, collating the history of radiology in Singapore, which resulted in this monograph – “X-rays in Singapore: 1896 – 1975”

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore

دوره 37 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008