Near-total Laryngectomy: An Oncologically Safe Alternative

ABSTRACT Traditional treatment for advanced transglottic laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers is wide field laryngectomy. Patients who undergo wide field laryngectomy must also undergo voice rehabilitation with a prosthesis, electrolarynx or esophageal speech. These are associated with complications, such as bloating of the stomach, stenosis, aspiration and difficulty with hygiene of the TEP prosthesis. Near-total laryngectomy is a surgical treatment modality, where speech is maintained by way of a dynamic myomucosal shunt. It was specially designed to overcome the serious complications of adynamic tracheoesophageal shunt methods. How to cite this article Dass A, Singhal SK, Gupta N, Verma H. Near-total Laryngectomy: An Oncologically Safe Alternative. Int J Phonosurg Laryngol 2014;4(1):30-32.