[Tracheostomy: a must or elective procedure in laryngeal resection for cancer?]

The paper outlines 15-year experience in anesthesia perfection in laryngeal resections with polymeric endoprosthesis (tube endoprosthesis EG 1-4, TU 42-2-467-85) made in 115 patients with laryngeal cancer stage III; presents the analysis of complications in the above resection depending on the time of postoperative and decanulation and anesthesiological procedure. The authors propose methods of shortening the time to decanulation and even to avoid tracheostomy in transcutaneous jet high-frequency artificial lung ventilation.