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Complications after CO2 laser surgery for early glottic cancer: An institutional experience.
Head & Neck 2016 April
BACKGROUND: Transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) of the glottis is increasingly utilized in the current management of early glottic cancer, its advantages being administrative ease, potential to be repeated, ability to keep radiotherapy and open laryngeal surgery available as salvage options, and low complication rates.
METHODS: A retrospective chart review of prospectively gathered data on all patients over a 10-year period who had undergone TLM for Tis or early (T1-2) glottic squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) was analyzed to examine the complications experienced.
RESULTS: Of 132 patients undergoing TLM, complications were: edema requiring tracheostomy (n = 1), surgical emphysema (n = 1), pharyngeal bruising (n = 1), endotracheal tube cuff perforation (n = 1), anterior glottic web (n = 14), vocal cord granuloma (n = 14), laryngocele (n = 1), and none of airway fire or intraoperative or postoperative hemorrhage.
CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that for early glottic cancers, and in skilled hands, with appropriate anesthetic and theater staff support, TLM is a safe and repeatable procedure. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 38: E987-E990, 2016.
METHODS: A retrospective chart review of prospectively gathered data on all patients over a 10-year period who had undergone TLM for Tis or early (T1-2) glottic squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) was analyzed to examine the complications experienced.
RESULTS: Of 132 patients undergoing TLM, complications were: edema requiring tracheostomy (n = 1), surgical emphysema (n = 1), pharyngeal bruising (n = 1), endotracheal tube cuff perforation (n = 1), anterior glottic web (n = 14), vocal cord granuloma (n = 14), laryngocele (n = 1), and none of airway fire or intraoperative or postoperative hemorrhage.
CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that for early glottic cancers, and in skilled hands, with appropriate anesthetic and theater staff support, TLM is a safe and repeatable procedure. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 38: E987-E990, 2016.
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