[Repair of the traumata caused by partial laryngectomy]

At present, the wound caused by partial laryngectomy are repaired by using many kinds of tissues in order to avoid infection, granuloma and laryngeal stenosis. It is unclear whether the traumata has to be repaired by transplant tissues or non-repaired traumata will lead to laryngeal dysfunction. This article analyzed 162 patients who received partial laryngectomy from April 1980 to March 1992. These patients had been divided into two groups: repaired group (78 cases) and non-repaired group (84 cases). Repair material used included sternohyoideus fascia (57 cases), thyro-hyoideus fascia (9 cases), throat musculus flap (6 cases), stemocleido-mastoideus fascia (3 cases) and throat flap (3 cases). The result indicated that there were no significant differences in respiration swallow recovery time and so on. So we concluded that non-repaired group has similar curative effect to repaired group and repairing the traumata (especially minor traumata) with the fascia around the traumata is an effective method.