Foreign body granuloma formation secondary to a vocal fold silicone injection : A case report

Abstract

This report presents the case of a 62-year-old male patient who developed severe hoarseness due to a foreign body granuloma in the larynx. The patient had previously received a silicon injection into the vocal cord for the treatment of unilateral recurrent nerve palsy 14 years earlier. A surgical biopsy of the granulation tumor was obtained with a partial resection of the thyroid cartilage by means of a surgical approach from the neck to exclude the possibility of a tumor as a result of malignant change in the larynx. The histopathological analysis revealed the lesion to be granulation tissue and the patient's hoarseness thereafter showed a slight recovery.