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Transoral laser microsurgery is the recommended treatment for early glottic cancers
- Source :
- Acta Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica, Vol. 53, no. 3, p. 175-178 (1999)
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- Medical terminology frequently mistakes the instrument for the surgical procedure: endoscopic excision of laryngeal cancers existed long before laser came into use. Lasing obeys the same rules as those of suspension laryngoscopy: if adequate laryngeal exposure is not attained, then the procedure is at risk of being incomplete and of providing few satisfactory results. Because a certain degree of literary anarchy exists in terms of definitions for the different cordectomy types, the Nomenclature Committee of the European Laryngological Society has proposed a classification. This categorization is a synthesis and a compromise between members of the Society who had developed and used, for several years, a personal classification. The proposed classification has two aims: to better understand each surgeon's technique in function of the tumoral extent; and to compare more rigorously the postoperative results. This classification includes the following procedures: Subepithelial cordectomy or decortication (Type I); Subligamentous cordectomy (Type II); Transmuscular cordectomy (Type III); Total or complete cordectomy (Type IV); Extended cordectomy encompassing the contralateral vocal fold (Type Va); encompassing the arytenoid (Type Vb); encompassing the ventricular fold (Type Vc); encompassing the subglottis (1 cm) (Type Vd).
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- Acta Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica, Vol. 53, no. 3, p. 175-178 (1999)
- Notes :
- English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1130539636
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource