[Wound infection and recurrence after total laryngectomy]

95 patients who received total laryngectomy for laryngeal carcinoma were reviewed. They were divided into two groups, those with postoperative wound infection and those without. The relations between postoperative wound infection and local recurrence were discussed. The results showed that the recurrence rate of postoperative infection group was higher than that of no postoperative infection (P < 0.001), and the patients with gram-negative bacilli infection also had much higher recurrence rates (P < 0.05). For the laryngeal cancer, the development of a wound infection after total laryngectomy may be related to the local tumour recurrence within one year.