A case of lipoid proteinosis presented with multiple papular lesions on the face and hoarseness of voice from early infancy. Five sibs of the patient were affected and one had died early in infancy, probably because of laryngeal obstruction.

BACKGROUND Cancer is a multifactorial disease. Repetitive cumulative damage of cellular organelles by oxy-free radicals are few of the important causative factors. AIM To assess the role of oxidative stress in the laryngeal cancer patients in Indian population. SETTING AND DESIGN Case control study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Level of malondialdehyde (MDA) as a marker of oxidative stress was e...

This study was performed to investigate the clinical manifestations, treatment methods, and prognosis of Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) with laryngeal involvement. Five clinical cases of RDD with laryngeal involvement diagnosed between 1986 and 2015 were retrospectively analyzed. The laryngeal lesions of these 5 patients mostly involved the glottis and subglottis, with the main symptoms being a ho...

leprosy is an ancient deforming disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, which is still poorly understood and often feared by the general public and even by some in the health care professions fortunately, the outlook for patients has dramatically improved over the last three decades with the introduction of multi-drug treatment and management strategies that have somewhat diminished the stigma ...

Eighty-one patients with long-term tracheostomy tubes (mean duration, 4.9 months) were examined via fiberoptic bronchoscopy prior to decannulation. Obstructive airway lesions were observed in 54 patients (67 percent). All tracheal lesions were anatomically located proximal to the stoma. No cuff lesions were observed. The two most commonly observed lesions were tracheal granuloma (60 percent) an...

<p><strong>Background:</strong> Tuberculosis (TB) involving organs other than the lungs is termed as 'extra pulmonary TB'. Very few studies on otorhinolaryngeal manifestations of TB have been conducted. The aim this study was to find out incidence head and neck TB, its varied presentations clinical association risk factors such smoking alcohol consumption.</p><p>&l...