BACKGROUND Nitric oxide (NO) shows differing concentrations in lower and upper airways. Patients after total laryngectomy are the only individuals, in whom a complete separation of upper and lower airways is guaranteed. Thus the objective of our study was to assess exhaled and nasal NO in these patients. METHODS Exhaled bronchial NO (FENO) and nasal nitric oxide (nNO) were measured in patient...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common comorbidity in patients undergoing laryngeal cancer surgery, the impact of this comorbidity in this setting is not well established. In this analysis, we used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) to elucidate the impact of COPD on outcomes after laryngectomy for laryngeal cancer. METHODS The NIS was queri...

Enlarged fronto-lateral laryngectomy with epiglottoplasty and supracricoid laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy (CHP) or cricohyoidoepiglottopexy (CHEP) differ from each other as regards surgical technique, extent of the resection and method of reconstruction. Despite of that, selected carcinomas of the true vocal cord staged as T2N0, which are included in indications to all mentioned laryngectomi...

Laryngeal carcinoma is a common tumor of the head and neck region. This study aimed to examine the outcomes of laryngectomy in elderly patients with laryngeal carcinoma. One-hundred twenty-two patients (male, 117; female, 5) aged 60 years or older (range, 60-94 years) who underwent laryngectomy between 1996 and 2010 were included. All patients were diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the ...

The psychosocial influences of laryngectomy were evaluated in patients with head and neck cancer. Five patients who had indications for surgery, refused laryngectomy. They preferred their occupational activities and pleasure in their social lives to losing their voices. 'Mourning work' is a psychological technical term and represents a psychological process that is set in train by the loss of a...

BACKGROUND Controversy exists as to the management of advanced laryngeal carcinoma. In general primary radical surgery is favoured. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyse the clinical outcome of patients having total laryngectomy for cancer of larynx. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a retrospective case note review and questionnaires were used for evaluating voice handicap. The...

OBJECTIVES Pharyngocutaneous fistula is a serious complication after total laryngectomy, and there are some risk factors stated in the literature. The surgical suture techniques are not studied so much. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of 'modified continuous mucosal Connell suture' on the incidence of pharyngocutaneous fistula after total laryngectomy. METHODS This is a...