INTRODUCTION Foreign body aspiration in the airway of children is a life-threatening clinical situation. Endoscopic retrieval alone is successful in the majority of patients. Occasionally, open surgical intervention in the form of tracheostomy, thoracotomy and bronchotomy and/or pulmonary resection is needed. We analysed the specific indications for tracheostomy during the removal of airway for...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS After concurrent chemoradiation for head and neck squamous cell cancer, patients with laryngeal incompetence may not recover function. We assessed variables predicting tracheostomy dependence as a measure of poor laryngeal function after chemoradiation. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective METHODS Analysis of 109 patients treated with chemoradiation for locoregionally advanced l...

OBJECTIVES To build on work in laryngology and oral biology that suggests utility in the assay of secretions collected from wound sites as a predictive instrument to determine which infants will likely develop subglottic stenosis following endotracheal intubation and to document and describe the wound-healing process. DESIGN Prospective, randomized design. INTERVENTION Laser-induced subglot...

BACKGROUND Solitary fibrous tumors (SFT) arising from the larynx are extremely rare; most occur in the supraglottic larynx. CASE REPORT Herein, we detail a new case of a subglottic SFT presenting as a well-encapsulated soft-tissue tumor with hoarseness. It showed isoattenuation, similar to the adjacent muscle on pre-contrast computed tomography (CT) images, and strong, heterogeneous enhanceme...

Laryngeal adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is extremely rare, worldwide. From January 1994 to January 2014, all cases of laryngeal ACC that were diagnosed in the four largest hospitals in Hainan province, were reviewed. Only two such cases were identified. The first patient had a tumor in the subglottic region and the second patient, in the glottic region. The patient with subglottic ACC, who had...

OBJECTIVE Over the past 20 years, jet ventilation techniques have been developed to enable safe and controlled microlaryngoscopy and the accurate treatment of laryngeal pathology. This study examined how advances in jet ventilation tube design have facilitated safe endolaryngeal surgery. STUDY DESIGN The study documented the development and use of the Jockjet subglottic jet ventilation tube s...

BACKGROUND Tracheal stenosis or tracheal injury is a troublesome disease. Traditional temporary tracheostomy and reconstruction can resolve some problems. However other problems such as subglottic stenosis and supracarinal stenosis, cannot be resolved by simple tracheostomy. The silicone tracheal T-tube presents a substitute for stent of this complicated disease. METHODS Eleven patients with ...

In spite of the presumed importance of the strap muscles on laryngeal valving and speech production, there is little research concerning the physiological role and the functional differences among the strap muscles. Generally, the strap muscles have been shown to cause a decrease in the fundamental frequency (F o) of phonation during contraction. In this study, an in vivo canine laryngeal model...

Tracheal stenosis is a potential complication of tracheostomy. The present study aimed to describe the epidemiologic profile of subglottic stenosis in a referral medical centre. During a 4-year period, all patients who had been admitted in an Intensive Care Unit of Imam Khomeini Hospital (affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences) and had undergone percutaneous tracheostomy during 7-1...

OBJECTIVES To determine the role of laryngotracheal reconstruction for recurrent croup and evaluate surgical outcomes in this cohort of patients. METHODS Retrospective chart review at a tertiary care pediatric hospital. RESULTS Six patients who underwent laryngotracheal reconstruction (LTR) for recurrent croup with underlying subglottic stenosis were identified through a search of our IRB-a...