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Emergency laryngectomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Andrew McCombe  and
P. M. Stell
Andrew McCombe*
Affiliation:
Liverpool
P. M. Stell
Affiliation:
Liverpool
*
Mr A. McCombe Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Liverpool, Royal Liverpool Hospital, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX.
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Abstract

From 1974 to 1990, 31 patients underwent emergency laryngectomy for airway obstruction due to laryngeal carcinoma, in aneffort to avoid the complication of stomal recurrence. This group of patients had a greater proportion of multiregional tumours (35 per cent vs 13 per cent) than a comparison group of elective laryngectomies. In other respects the two groups were similar.

Early post-operative mortality (6.5 per cent vs 3 per cent), stomal recurrence rates (4.2 per cent vs 4.8 per cent) and survival (53 per cent vs 55 per cent) were not significantly different between the emergency laryngectomy group and the comparison group undergoing elective laryngectomy.

Keywords

Laryngectomy

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 105 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 463 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1991

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