Abstract
BACKGROUND
In-office laryngeal surgery is taking on a more commonplace role in the treatment of laryngeal disorders. The potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser has been a resourceful adjunct to the management of patients with mucosal lesions of the vocal cords. However, a paucity of data exists for its use in postintubation granulomas treated in-office.
CLINICAL CASE
A 43-year-old female presented with voice hoarseness and found to have a large obstructing postintubation granuloma which was treated by in-office KTP laser and en masse excision.
CONCLUSIONS
We report the successful case of a patient receiving in-office treatment for a large vocal process granuloma using the KTP laser with en masse excision. The combined use of the KTP laser and forceps in-office can be valuable to the surgical management of vocal process granulomas, given their numerous recurrences. New avenues in office-based surgical management of laryngeal disorders can offer accessibility and decreased morbidity to patients.
TY - JOUR
T1 - In-Office Excision En Masse of a Vocal Process Granuloma Using the Potassium-Titanyl-Phosphate Laser.
AU - Mascarella,Marco A,
AU - Young,Jonathan,
Y1 - 2015/03/17/
PY - 2014/08/15/received
PY - 2014/12/12/accepted
PY - 2015/3/22/entrez
PY - 2015/3/22/pubmed
PY - 2016/10/12/medline
KW - Dysphonia
KW - In-office surgery
KW - KTP laser
KW - Vocal process granuloma
SP - 93
EP - 5
JF - Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
JO - J Voice
VL - 30
IS - 1
N2 - BACKGROUND: In-office laryngeal surgery is taking on a more commonplace role in the treatment of laryngeal disorders. The potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser has been a resourceful adjunct to the management of patients with mucosal lesions of the vocal cords. However, a paucity of data exists for its use in postintubation granulomas treated in-office. CLINICAL CASE: A 43-year-old female presented with voice hoarseness and found to have a large obstructing postintubation granuloma which was treated by in-office KTP laser and en masse excision. CONCLUSIONS: We report the successful case of a patient receiving in-office treatment for a large vocal process granuloma using the KTP laser with en masse excision. The combined use of the KTP laser and forceps in-office can be valuable to the surgical management of vocal process granulomas, given their numerous recurrences. New avenues in office-based surgical management of laryngeal disorders can offer accessibility and decreased morbidity to patients.
SN - 1873-4588
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/25795363/In_Office_Excision_En_Masse_of_a_Vocal_Process_Granuloma_Using_the_Potassium_Titanyl_Phosphate_Laser_
L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0892-1997(14)00272-0
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -