OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of subglottic stenosis after surgical excision of congenital subglottic hemangioma. DESIGN Retrospective analysis and case series. SETTING Tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS A total of 13 pediatric patients diagnosed with subglottic hemangioma with unilateral, bilateral, or circular lesions and more than 50% airway obstruction between 1992 and 2001. ...

Laryngeal chondrosarcoma (CS) is a very rare entity. It is usually seen in 50-80-year olds. It is developed from cricoid cartilage largely. Patients have laryngeal CS complaint of respiratuvar distress, dysphonia, and dysphagia generally. A submucous mass is usually seen in physical examination with an intact mucosa. Distant metastasis is rare in CSs. Main treatment is surgical excision. An 82-...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to examine the epidemiology and outcome of subglottic stenosis in infants and children, and to evaluate the current techniques used in its diagnosis and management at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore. METHODS A retrospective review and long-term follow-up was conducted in all infants and children diagnosed with subglottic stenosis between January...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Laryngotracheal stenosis usually occurs as a result of injury from endotracheal intubation or tracheostomy placement. With an estimated incidence of 1% to 22% after these procedures, chronic sequelae ranging from discomfort to devastating effects on quality of life, and even death, make this complication a potential litigation target. We examined federal and state court re...

Thirty young patients with acquired laryngeal stenosis were treated by means of a laryngofissure and stenting. The age distribution suggested two subgroups: infants aged 0-2 years (n = 24), and children aged 6-16 years (n = 6). The causes of the stenosis and the treatment results were different in these subgroups. Treatment resulted in successful decannulation in 22 of 24 infants, and in 5 of 6...

Carotid artery stenosis (CAS) is one of the major complications of external irradiation (radiotherapy, RT) for laryngeal carcinoma. Considering amaurosis fugax is often one of the first signs of significant CAS our focus was to determine weather patients with post-irradiation CAS also develop ocular microangiopathy as a result of insufficient ophthalmic circulation. In our study Carotid Duplex ...

A 46-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of dyspnea and weight loss on a background of previous pneumonectomy for bronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma 14 years beforehand. Several years prior to this presentation, she had developed left vocal cord palsy and a metastatic lesion to the right buttock confirmed at resection. Investigations included CT pulmonary angiography and right heart...

Background: Significant shifts in therapy paradigms for advanced laryngeal carcinoma have occurred more recently. The number of patients receiving surgery alone has significantly decreased, while the radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy increased. Both treatment modalities its own advantages disadvantages. present study is a consideration to compare complication rate both cancer. Methods: head ne...