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A 10-Year Experience

Reza Rahbar, DMD, MD; Isabelle Rouillon, MD; Gilles Roger, MD; Aaron Lin, MD; Roger C. Nuss, MD; Francoise Denoyelle, MD, PhD; Trevor J. McGill, MD; Gerald B. Healy, MD; Erea-Noel Garabedian, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006;132:1335-1341.

Objective  To review the presentation and associated congenital abnormalities of laryngeal cleft and present guidelines for its evaluation and management.

Design  A 10-year retrospective study (1994-2004) with institutional review board approval.

Setting  Two pediatric tertiary care medical centers.

Patients  Twenty-two pediatric patients (mean age, 21 months) with laryngeal cleft.

Intervention  Surgical repair of laryngeal cleft.

Main Outcome Measures  Sex, age, symptoms, other associated abnormalities, method of evaluation, type of laryngeal cleft, method of surgical repair, treatment outcome, complications, and long-term follow-up.

Results  All 22 patients underwent surgical repair for laryngeal cleft. Airway endoscopy confirmed the following types of laryngeal clefts: type 1 (n = 3), type 2 (n = 10), and type 3 (n = 9). Surgical repair techniques included an open approach with or without interposition graft (n = 16) and an endoscopic approach (n = 6).

Conclusions  Early diagnosis and proper repair of laryngeal cleft are essential to prevent pulmonary damage and associated morbidity. Each patient should be assessed properly, and the surgical approach should be individualized based on the symptoms, other associated findings on airway endoscopy, and type of cleft.

Author Affiliations: Department of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital (Drs Rahbar, Nuss, McGill, and Healy), and Department of Otology and Laryngology (Drs Rahbar, Lin, Nuss, McGill, and Healy), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; and Department of Otolaryngology, Armand-Trousseau Children's Hospital, Paris, France (Drs Rouillon, Roger, Denoyelle, and Garabedian).

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