This report is to describe a few characteristics of tuberculosis of the larynx recently observed in the author's clinic. Tuberculosis of the larynx is occuring less frequently than it did in years gone by because of the advent of antituberculosis chemotherapy, and the disease was once thought nonexistent. It became, however, slowly increasing in its incidence, even farely low, in past few years. The onset of laryngeal involvement is most frequently in the older age.
Granulomatous lesion is frequent and one should be careful to make the differential diagnosis from carcinoma of the larynx particularly in the aged patients. It is noteworthy that there may be patients in whom laryngeal tubereulosis is found as a primary although the advanced stage of pulmonary tuberculosis with the lack of subjective symptom is lately detected.
