Ankylosis
Categories:
CHRONIC STENOSIS OF THE LARYNX AND TRACHEA
Sources:
A Manual Of Peroral Endoscopy And Laryngeal Surgery
Fixation of the crico-arytenoid joints with an
approximation of the cords may require evisceration of the larynx.
This, however, should not be attempted until after a year's lapse, and
should be preceded by attempts to improve the condition by endoscopic
bouginage, and by partial corking of the tracheotomic cannula.