Stridor caused by a rare laryngeal tumour

ABSTRACT

This report describes stridor caused by a rare laryngeal tumour. The patient had presented to ENT with a midline neck-mass and stridor of acute onset and diagnosed radiologically as a mass in the right lobe of thyroid gland in continuity with enhancing polypoidal mass in trachea at the same level. Total thyroidectomy along with the resection of the mass and tracheal ring was performed, trachea being anastomosed primarily. Histopathology reported it as a paraganglioma of the larynx. The patient has been followed-up for 5 years with no clinical or radiological recurrence of the tumour