[A case of industrial origin of laryngeal carcinoma (author's transl)]

The Growing importance of industrial noxae for carcinogenesis will, in the course of further progressive mechanization and industrialization, suggest an increasing confrontation with this problem. The above mentioned case, a patient working with insulating materials on industrial heating systems, impressevely demonstrates the transformation of chronic laryngitis into a carcinoma in the course of years, brought about by industrial influences and thus proving the exogenous origin of this genesis. Dust as well as strong effects of heat under conditions of variable atmospheric humidily are concerned to be principal damaging factors.