Abstract
We report a 53-year-old woman with multiple (three) vocal cord cysts. She visited our clinic complaining of deteriorating hoarseness. Indirect laryngoscopic and laryngofiberoscopic examinations showed a slight swelling in both vocal folds and cyst lesion in the right vocal cord. The patient underwent laryngomicrosurgery under general anesthesia. Through a laryngomicroscope, the three cysts were found to be situated in the center of membranous portion of the right vocal cord. The cysts had a smooth surface and a pale yellowish color and measured 4×2×2, 2×1×1, and 1×1×1 mm. Pathological examination of the surgical specimens showed that they were epidermal cysts. Their etiology was presumed to involve the inclusion of epithelial cells of the vocal cord as a result of repeated mechanical irritation.
