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Simple method to control laryngeal overspill in tracheostomized patients
1ENT Department, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
An inflatable balloon was inserted through a pre-existing tracheostomy to occlude the upper trachea. This technique controlled previously intractable laryngeal overspill for a period of three months in a patient with inoperable carcinoma of the larynx.