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Abstract
The article by Donald A. Leopold, MD, entitled Laryngeal Trauma: A Historical Comparison of Treatment Methods (p 106) is thought-provoking. Dr Leopold has reviewed more than 200 case reports of laryngeal trauma and added to these 36 descriptions of patients treated at State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse. Discarding those reports of patients who died or who were lost to follow-up, the outcomes of the 214 remaining cases are evaluated with respect to airway and voice functioning after treatment, by means of the following considerations: (1) results of medical v results of surgical treatment of laryngeal trauma, (2) time passed between injury and surgical correction, (3) minor injuries with v those without attendant vocal cord paralysis, (4) stent placement (and length of time kept in place) with injuries to the mobile and immobile vocal cords, and (5) severity of injury from bluntvthat from penetrating laryngeal
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