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Laryngeal Surgery in Children

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Laryngeal surgery in children has advanced in the last 100 years. This has largely been due to developments in paediatric anaesthesia, diagnostic tools, microsurgical instruments and a multidisciplinary approach to the child’s larynx within a specialised paediatric institution.

The spectrum of laryngeal pathologies is different to that seen in adults and varies from neonates to infants to young to older children. Paediatric otolaryngologists manage such conditions as vocal cord nodules, laryngomalacia, subglottic stenosis and cysts, vocal cord paralysis and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. On the other hand, adult otolaryngologists frequently encounter laryngitis, muscle tension dysphonia, spasmodic dysphonia, vocal cord paralysis, vocal cord polyps, nodules or cysts (non-cancerous lesions) and pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions. Most paediatric laryngeal disorders can be managed surgically with endoscopic minimally invasive techniques. The aim of this chapter is to discuss the advances in the diagnosis and management of the majority of laryngeal disorders encountered by a paediatric otolaryngologist. The laryngeal assessment, anaesthetic considerations and 13 different pathological disorders are presented.

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Lang, B., Mehanna, R., Russell, J. (2022). Laryngeal Surgery in Children. In: Remacle, M., Eckel, H.E. (eds) Textbook of Surgery of Larynx and Trachea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09621-1_13

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