Well tolerated videotelelaryngography in the office

ABSTRACT

Living direct sight is the best method of documentation, both for the patient and physician. Our study aims to get a precise and well tolerated system for routine diagnostic living documentation of the larynx in the office. This was achieved by using the wide angled 70 degrees telescope sinoscope and attaching it to an endovision telecam, videorecorder and monitor. The slimline telescope, 4 mm diameter and 18 cm long, shows a precise image and is easily tolerated by most patients without topical anaesthesia. The magnified image by telecam is viewed on monitor and recorded by videorecorder as a permanent documentation. This system is applied on our patients from 4 months old. It could be tolerated in up to 100% of patients and resulted in minimizing the failure rate of visualizing the larynx to a very low extent [3%]