Abstract
We herein report the case of a 7-year-old female suffering from a laryngeal granuloma. She had a supra-glottic tumor at birth, and her severe hoarseness had continued ever since. A fiber-optic examination showed the presence of a large mass in the left glottis, with no structure of the vocal fold, the false cord or the ventricle being observed. We performed microsurgery under direct laryngoscopy to reduce the mass, and adjusted the edge of the glottis to the right vocal fold. The operation was successful, and her hoarseness almost disappeared. The mass was diagnosed as chronic granulation histopathologically. We speculate that it was a congenital laryngeal cyst or laryngocele. These conditions might have caused changes in the granulation tissue due to the inflammation, thus resulting in the development of a large mass.
