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CO2-laser treatment of recurrent glottic carcinoma
J D Kerrebijn1, M F de Boer, P P Knegt
1Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Rotterdam Dijkzigt, The Netherlands.
Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
The records of 23 patients treated by CO2-laser surgery for recurrent glottic carcinoma after radiotherapy were studied retrospectively to assess treatment results and complications. 15 patients (65%) were cured with one or more laser procedures. The remaining 8 underwent a total laryngectomy for a second or third recurrence. One patient (4%) died of disease. No major complications from CO2-laser surgery were encountered. It is concluded that CO2-laser surgery is a safe method of treatment of recurrent glottic carcinoma.