This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

ROBERT E. FECHNER, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1974;99(3):232-234.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

PATHOLOGIC QUIZ CASE 1

Marion V. Filippone, MD, Robert E. Fechner, MD, Houston

This 64-year-old woman presented with progressive hoarseness of five weeks' duration that had not responded to medical treatment. The patient smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for the past 40 years. The patient denied any history of weight loss, dysphagia, odonophagia, or hemoptysis. Indirect laryngoscopy revealed a pedunculated, papillary-like lesion of the right true vocal cord. There was good mobility of both vocal cords. The remainder of the otolaryngologic examination, including the neck, was unremarkable. Polytome views of the larynx revealed a pedunculated lesion extending subglottically from the right true vocal cord. A barium swallow revealed a small sliding hiatal hernia.

On direct laryngoscopy a papillary lesion was noted involving the entire right true vocal cord. A biopsy specimen was taken by laryngeal forceps and submitted for frozen section diagnosis (Fig 1). On receiving the histopathological diagnosis, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
The Methodist Hospital, Houston 77025

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?