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Clarence T. Sasaki, MD; Gregory Milmoe, MD; Eiji Yanagisawa, MD; Kevin Berry, MD; John A. Kirchner, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1980;106(7):422-423.

Abstract
• Surgical closure of the glottis is reserved for patients who have suffered progressive loss of sphincteric and phonatory laryngeal function. In the prevention of life-threatening aspiration, a triplelayer closure is performed with use of a superiorly based sternohyoid muscle flap. Surgical closure is theoretically reversible should sufficient neuromuscular function return in any given patient.

(Arch Otolaryngol 106:422-423, 1980)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 9, 1979.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510 (Dr Sasaki).

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