Case Report of a Werner Syndrome Patient with Vocal Cord Polyp

Abstract

A case of Werner's syndrome with a vocal cord polyp is presented.
Werner's syndrome was confirmed as being an inherited autosomal recessive trait in a study of forty-two affected Japanese families. This syndrome has distinctive characteristic features, habitus and many resultant diseases due to premature senescence.
Of these various diseases, this report focuses on cancer in particular.
Since hoarseness is one of the diagnostic criteria of Werner's syndrome, it is essential that otolaryngists be cognizant of this syndrome. When doing diagnostic analyses we must pay attention to the possibility of malignancy.