BACKGROUND Airway management of the obese patient presenting for surgery is more likely to be a challenging problem. Supraglottic airway device has been adopted as a bridge to connect ventilation and tracheal intubation in obese patients who would be suffered with difficult intubation. The optimum sevoflurane concentration for supraglottic airway device insertion allowing spontaneous breathing ...

We present our experience with primary CO2 laser surgery for planocellular supraglottic carcinoma. During a ten-year period, we performed 64 curative supraglottic laryngectomies. Twenty-nine patients presented with T1 and 35 with T2 carcinoma. There were 46 patients without regional and/or distant metastases (N0 neck), and 18 patients with N+ neck. Thirty-three (52%) patients were treated with ...

INTRODUCTION Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is a common condition in endurance athletes. Exercise-induced vocal cord dysfunction (EIVCD) is a frequent confounder of EIB. The diagnosis of EIVCD may be challenging and can be missed as the problem is often intermittent and may only occur during intense exercise. Eucapnic voluntary hyperventilation (EVH) is the best test to detect EIB. ...

Obese patients are more likely to encounter with difficult airway management, and supraglottic airway device has been adopted to facilitate tracheal intubation. Theoptimumanesthetic concentration for obesepatients to insert a supraglottic airwaydevicewith spontaneous respiration has not been investigated. This study was designed to determine the end-tidal concentration of sevoflurane that would...

An analysis of 74 patients with laryngeal cancer treated between February 1985 and July 1995 is presented. Their mean age was 64 years, and the male to female ratio was 14:1. There were 48 cases of the glottic type, 21 cases of the supraglottic type, 2 cases of the subglottic type, and 3 cases of the transglottic type. Histopathologically, there were 72 cases of squamous cell carcinoma and 2 ca...

BACKGROUND Transoral, minimally invasive organ preservation surgeries are being increasingly used for laryngopharyngeal carcinomas to avoid the toxicities of combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy regimens. This study investigates the efficiency, safety, and functional outcomes of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) supraglottic laryngectomy. METHODS Patients with laryngeal cancer who under...

BACKGROUND T3 laryngeal cancer encompasses heterogeneous lesions whose treatment is still debated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in management of selected T3 glottic and supraglottic cancers. METHODS Fifty-six patients with selected T3 glottic and supraglottic squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) treated by TLM ± selective neck dissection ± adjuvant t...

Air-Q® (air-Q) is a supraglottic airway device which can be used as a guidance of intubation in pediatric as well as in adult patients. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of air-Q compared to other airway devices during general anesthesia in pediatric patients by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. A total of 10 studies including 789 patients were included in the final analysis....

For citation purposes: Zeng R, Dai Q, Peng Z, Cai P, Hu W. Prediction of occult cervical lymph node metastasis in clinically negative supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma. Head Neck Oncol. 2012 Oct 27;4(3):69. Licensee OA Publishing London 2012. Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) Abstract Objective Supraglottic laryngeal carcinomas are often accompanied by occult cervical lymph node m...

Non-syndromic hypoplasia of the epiglottis presenting without symptoms at middle age is an extremely rare entity. We report a 50 years female who presented with oral ulcers and incidentally was found to have an asymptomatic rudimentary epiglottis and thickened bilateral aryepiglottic folds forming an inverted funnel shaped supraglottis protecting the airway from any aspiration. This case demons...