Abstract

Laryngeal framework surgery has proved to be an important alternative in the treatment of vocal cord paralysis in adults. We have modified one of these operations in order to manage debilitating aspiration in a 14-year-old boy. His laryngeal incompetence resulted from a severe neurologic injury and laryngeal scarring from a unilateral arytenoidectomy and multiple Teflon injections. To help him, we studied a series of pediatric larynges and devised an operation that succeeded in rebuilding the bulk of his excised arytenoid cartilage and markedly reducing aspiration.

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