Surgical treatment of acquired subglottic stenosis

Seven patients with severe acquired glottic-subglottic stenosis were treated surgically, some of them by the augmentation principle and other by resection. The surgical results are reported and although only 50 per cent could be decannulated it was evident, at the end of a minimum follow-up period of 4 years, that the physical, mental, and social handicaps suffered by a child permanently wearing a cannula are so great that a very active surgical attitude to the problems of laryngeal stenosis is required.