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Glottic Cancer

Recent findings in glottic cancer described by researchers from Kurume University, Medical Department

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, August 14th, 2009

According to a study from Kurume, Japan, "The paraglottic space and cricoid area of the larynx are made up of loose, areolar tissue composed of loose elastic and collagenous fibres and adipose tissue. They contain the main blood vessels of the larynx."

"We examined the correlation between the histopathological extension of glottic carcinoma into the paraglottic space or cricoid area and the development of cervical lymph node metastasis. We reviewed the medical charts of 45 patients (44 men and one woman) who had undergone total laryngectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the glottis between 1991 and 2003. Macroscopic and microscopic study of the removed larynges of the...

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