[Thyroplasty by external approach with silastic prosthesis in the treatment of laryngeal paralysis].

From August 1995 to January 1997 8 phonosurgical procedures were performed to correct glottal incompetence. There were 4 men and 4 women, the median age was 42 years. The most common indication for thyroplasty was recurrent or vagal nerve injury (6/8 cases).

[Extracartilaginous glottectomy. Operative technic, indications and results].

Cancer developing on a chronic laryngitis or bilateral superficial cancer of vocal cords still pose management problems to surgeons. Double cordectomy presents the inconvenience of opening the larynx in the median line and the need for insertion of a dilating piece removed during a second stage. These disadvantages can be avoided by an extracartilaginous glottectomy by median opening of thyroid cartilage, monoblock ablation of both vocal cords and immediate closure of larynx by lowering of ventricular bands.