VOLUME 61 JANUARY 2007 NUMBER 1 ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS The complications of thyroidectomy are MATERIALS AND METHODS hemorrhage, recurrent or superior laryngeal nerve palsy and hypocalcemia. Iatrogenic This is a prospective nonrandomized study lesions of external branch of superior conducted on 46 patients undergoing various laryngeal nerve (EBSLN) during types of thyroidectomies with ‘lateraliz...

INTRODUCTION  Dysphonia is the main symptom of lesions that affect the vocal tract. Many of those lesions may require surgical treatment. Polyps are one of the most common forms of vocal cord lesions and the most prevalent indication for laryngeal microsurgery. There are different types of polyps, and their different characteristics can indicate different prognosis and treatments. AIM  To con...

Running title Early stage detection of malignant vocal fold lesions Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. Abstract About two thirds of laryngeal cancers originate at the vocal cords. Early stage detection of malignant vocal fold al...

BACKGROUND Recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis is caused by the human papilloma virus and characterized by multiple exophytic lesions of the vocal tract; it is a benign disease, but one that tends to recur after removal of growths. Due to the nature of the disease, alternative treatment strategies have focused on antiviral injection at lesion sites that eliminate repeated surgical procedures. Th...

Extranodal lesions may be the sole manifestation of Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD). Although the head and neck region is one of the most common extranodal sites, laryngeal involvement is very rare. A 44-year-old woman presented with a complaint of progressive dyspnea. She had a three-year history of treatment for asthma and a history of operation for a nasal mass that afflicted her for 15 years an...

BACKGROUND Small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (SCNEC) of the head and neck is rare. The prognosis of SCNEC in the nasal cavity and larynx is poor. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinicopathological features of nasal and laryngeal SCNEC and to determine the expression of HIF-1α, GLUT-1, PI3K, and p-Akt in SCNEC. METHODS Between 2003 and 2012, 10 consecutive patients with histolo...

We experienced two rare cases with laryngeal cystic lesions (laryngocele and laryngeal cyst). In the first case, the laryngocele case was removed by laryngomicrosurgery using an oral approach under general anesthesia. In the second case, the magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a dumbbell-type cyst with mucus widely extending from the laryngeal lumen to the neck through the thyroid cartilage...

Novel markers are needed to accurately predict the risk of malignant transformation in laryngeal premalignancies. We therefore investigated the clinical significance of cortactin (CTTN) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) during laryngeal tumorigenesis and their potential utility as cancer risk markers. CTTN and FAK protein expression and gene amplification were assessed in 82 patients with larynge...

Cysts in the larynx are one of the least encountered benign laryngeal lesions. However, Myerson 1 claimed that laryngeal cysts occurred more frequently than described in the text books. Singh and Malik 2 had reported five cases which were diagnosed during a five years period. The present paper deals with eight cases of cysts of the larynx in different age groups with varying presenting problems...