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The Management of Airway Involvement in Thyroid Tumors
Victor G. Lawson, MD, FRCS(C)
Arch Otolaryngol. 1983;109(2):86-90.
Abstract
• I have reviewed 100 consecutive cases of surgically managed thyroid disease. Of those, 35% had evidence of airway involvement. The airway involvement can be classified in the following fashion: compression alone, displacement with compression, displacement without compression, infiltration of the airway with or without compression or displacement, and neurogenic dysfunction of the airway. Definitive management of these cases involved resection of the thyroid gland with decompression of the airway in compressive and/or displacement disease, and en bloc composite resection of the thyroid and involved airway in infiltrative disease. In all cases, with the exception of those involving anaplastic carcinoma, restoration of normal airway function and control of disease was possible.
(Arch Otolaryngol 1983;109:86-90)
Author Affiliations
From the Department of OtolaryngologyHead and Neck Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital and the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Toronto.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 18, 1982.
Read in part before the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery, Palm Beach, Fla, May 5, 1982.
Reprint requests to Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, Suite 323, Edith Cavell Wing, 399 Bathurst St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8 (Dr Lawson).
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