ABSTRACT
A technique is introduced for vocal cord mobilization in which a tunnel is made through the inner perichondrium of the thyroid cartilage and a medical grade silicone is placed from the upper part of the thyroid cartilage and pulled out over the cricothyroid membrane. This technique was performed on six dogs, and results were compared to those of a modified laryngoplasty performed on another six dogs. The technique was refined on 20 cadavers and finally performed on five adult patients with more than 1 year of vocal cord paralysis. Results of this technique suggest that it constitutes a good alternative to Teflon injection; morbidity was minimal.
Subject(s)
Prostheses and Implants , Silicones , Vocal Cord Paralysis/surgery , Adult , Aged , Animals , Dogs , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Silicone Elastomers , Thyroid Cartilage/surgerySubject(s)
Lymphadenitis , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous , Mycobacterium Infections , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Lymph Node Excision/methods , Lymphadenitis/etiology , Lymphadenitis/pathology , Lymphadenitis/surgery , Male , Mycobacterium Infections/pathology , Mycobacterium Infections/surgery , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/pathology , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/surgery , NeckABSTRACT
Presentamos el caso de un paciente quien despues de un traumatismo en la region retroauricular izquierda desarrolla un angioliomioma extraido quirurgicamente. Actualmente el paciente se encuentra libre de sintomatologia. Estos tumores son dificiles de diagnosticar clinicamente por la falta de sintomatologia especifica y lo raro de su presentacion; este es el segundo caso informado en la literatura mundial con esta localizacion. El tratamiento que se sugiere es el quirurgico, no se presentan recurrencias cuando su extirpacion es total
