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A Preliminary Report of Five Cases

HERBERT G. BIRCK, MD; HAROLD E. MANHART

Arch Otolaryngol. 1963;77(6):603-608.

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Treatment of juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis has always been an enigma. The conclusion reached at the International Congress of Otolaryngology in 1957 regarding therapy was that periodic surgical removal was still the procedure of choice. The etiology of juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis was felt to be viral.

Since 1957 Moffitt¹ has described treatment of this condition with bovine vaccine and Holinger² with autogenous vaccine. Tabb³ has used vein grafts.

The purpose of this article is to describe the use of ultrasound in the treatment of juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis. We will present five case reports and a brief discussion of the etiology of this disease.

Since January, 1961, we have treated five children with juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis. The first patient had been treated with repeated surgical removal since 1958. In January, 1961, during the change of the tracheotomy tube, subglottic and tracheal extensions of the growth were noticed. The realization . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
COLUMBUS, OHIO

Assistant Professor (Dr. Birck) and Instructor (Dr. Manhart), Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 30, 1963.

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