Lues
Categories:
CHRONIC STENOSIS OF THE LARYNX AND TRACHEA
Sources:
A Manual Of Peroral Endoscopy And Laryngeal Surgery
Active and persistent antiluetic medication must precede and
accompany any local treatment of luetic laryngeal stenosis. Prolonged
stretching with oversized intubation tubes following excision or
cauterization may sometimes be successful, but laryngostomy is usually
required to combat the vicious contraction of luetic cicatrices.
Scleroma is rarely encountered in America. Radiotherapy has been
advocated and good results have been reported from the intravenous
injection of salvarsan. Radium may be tried, and its application is
readily made through the direct laryngoscope.