Related Experiment Videos
Primary placement of a voice prosthesis on transposed colon after total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy
O Parise1, R Cutait, P A Corrêa
1Oncology Center, Sírio-Libanês Hospital, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Background:
Primary placement of a voice prosthesis may aid rehabilitation after total laryngectomy.
Methods:
We present a rare clinical situation of a T4 NO MO squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx and esophagus in a patient who had previously undergone a transmesocolic Billroth II gastrectomy.
Results:
The patient benefited from a total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy, with reconstruction using a transverse-descending colon transposition, and primary placement of a low-pressure voice prosthesis.
Conclusion:
Primary placement of a voice prosthesis may be successful even in a patient who requires extensive pharyngoesophageal reconstruction using transposed colon. To our knowledge, there has been no previous report of primary placement of a voice prosthesis on a colon autograft.