Incidence, Surgical Treatment and Postoperative Follow-up in Laryngeal Papilloma

Abstract

We report 20 patients with laryngeal papilloma. All of them had been treated by laryngomicrosurgery. The laryngeal papilloma had appeared most frequently in males aged the forties and fifties. The chief complaint was hoarseness in most of the patients and the lesion in the vocal cord was detected and removed by operation in all. A follow-up study revealed recurrence of the tumor in a half of the 20 cases and transformation of the tumor into malignancy was confirmed in 2 cases.
Regular follow-up studies are necessary after the first surgery in this disease.