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  • Title: Feasibility of supracricoid laryngectomy based on pathological examination.
    Author: Hassmann E, Skotnicka B.
    Journal: Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol; 1998; 255(2):68-73. PubMed ID: 9550259.
    Abstract:
    Partial horizontal supracricoid laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy at the Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Białystok, involves resection of the entire thyroid cartilage with the pre-epiglottic and paraglottic spaces. Experience has shown that this technique will permit adequate phonation, respiration and deglutition in selected advanced cases of supraglottic and glottic carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to verify histologically the indications for this surgery by examining sections of whole-organ laryngeal specimens. Post-laryngectomy specimens from 90 patients with otherwise previously untreated supraglottic (48), transglottic (22) and glottic (20) carcinomas were reviewed retrospectively. The majority (66) of the specimens were staged as pT4. Findings showed that 22 of the specimens analyzed (mostly supraglottic tumors) could have been eradicated by supracricoid laryngectomy alone. The present study confirmed the principles of supracricoid laryngectomy for selected large tumors.
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