In recent years, the definite diagnosis of laryngeal diseases with a minimized discomfort to the patient has become possible by frequent use of flexible laryngofiberscopes. However, there have been difficult cases for an endoscopic examination even by this type of flexible laryngofiberscope because of visual disturbance due to hypersecretion. And also the collection of specimens for histological examination and the therapeutic procedures such as the removal of pedunculated polyps and suction of secretion have not been achieved with the current diagnostic fiberscopes.
Therefore, we have taken those problems into consideration, and recently developed a new therapeutic laryngofiberscope.
We introduce this new fiber-laryngoscope for therapy with its specifications and procedures, and make a clinical report on 6 cases which we have successfully performed endoscopic examinations and therapeutic manipulations with this instrument.
