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01-12-2009 | Case Report
Intraoperative modification of a supracricoid laryngectomy to a subtotal laryngectomy with tracheohyoidoepiglottopexy
Authors:
Rosario Marchese-Ragona, Nicola Calgaro, Alberto Tregnaghi, Gino Marioni, Giancarlo Ottaviano, Claudia Staffieri, Alberto Staffieri
Published in:
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
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Issue 12/2009
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Abstract
In recent decades, with the widespread diffusion of the supracricoid laryngectomy in the treatment of selected advanced laryngeal neoplasm, the indications to non-conservative surgery are less frequent than in past. We report the case of a patient in whom a planned supracricoid laryngectomy was intraoperatively converted in an extended partial laryngectomy with tracheohyoidoepiglottopexy for a tumor involving the cricoid cartilage.