Reader in Head and Neck Surgery
Head of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Tel: 0117 9595158

Fax: 0117 9595158

E-mail: martin.birchall@bristol.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Laryngology: benign and malignant disease of the larynx, with an emphasis on immunology, growth factors and reinnervation.
Laryngeal transplantation.
Organisational research into head and neck cancer.

Recent Publications:

Gorti GK, Birchall MA, Haverson K, Macchiarini P, Bailey M A Preclinical Model for Laryngeal Transplantation : Anatomy and Mucosal Immunology of the Porcine Larynx Transplantation 1999;68(11):1638-42.

Birchall MA Human laryngeal allograft: shift of emphasis in transplantation [commentary] The Lancet 1998; 351:539-40.

Birchall MA & the South and West Expert Tumour Panel for Head and Neck Cancer. Consensus standards for the process of cancer care: a modified expert panel method applied to head and neck cancer. British Journal of Cancer 1998; 77:1926-1931.

Birchall MA, Winterford C, Gobe G, Harmon BV Apoptosis and mitosis in oral and oropharyngeal epithelium: evidence for a topographical switch in premalignant lesions. Cell Proliferation, 1996 29:447-456.