Seventy-five patients with vocal fold cyst who visited our clinic between 1981 and 1990were studied. Almost half of the cases were male and 83% were between thirty and seventy years of age. Only two cases were younger than twenty years of age. Surgery was performed for 38 patients and 97% of those patients showed vocal improvement after surgery. Vocal function tests and acoustic analyses revealed significant improvements after surgery. There was no difference in results between the complete removal of the cyst with preservation of vocal fold epithelium and removal of the superficial cyst wall covered by vocal fold epithelium. Recurrence occurred in only one case after surgery.
