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GABRIEL TUCKER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1935;21(2):172-174.

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Congenital web of the larynx is extremely rare. Hodge,¹ of Montreal, in an article published in 1930, quoted St. Clair Thomson's² statement that only twenty-three authentic cases of congenital laryngeal web have been reported. Since the appearance of Hodge's article, Clerf³ has contributed a valuable article on congenital web of the larynx, and Wilkinson,⁴ under the title "Congenital Stenosis," has reported another case of congenital web in which the condition responded to direct laryngoscopic bougienage and incision. Kriegsmann⁵ under the title "Surgical Treatment of Congenital Laryngeal Diaphragm" recorded a case in a woman, 26 years of age, in which the operative method of cure was a failure. In Hodge's case of a child 5 years of age, cure was brought about by Jackson's technic of incision of the web followed by dilation through the laryngoscope.

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Footnotes
Read before the Section of Otolaryngology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, April 18, 1934.

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