Abstract
Thyroid carcinoma is one of the most common cancer in the head and neck and its incidence shows an increasing tendency. Due to the special anatomical location of thyroid carcinoma, patients will have a bad prognosis outcome when cancer invades larynx and trachea. Surgical treatment is still a preferred therapy for thyroid carcinoma with laryngotracheal invasion, because it has the advantages such as high survival rate, low recurrence rate, relieving of airway obstruction, improving of postoperative quality of life. Other therapies including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, 131I and molecular targeted therapy can also be used for treatments of thyroid carcinoma. This article reviews the current treatments for thyroid carcinoma with laryngotracheal invasion.
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