PROGRESS IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY: A Summary of the Bibliographic Material Available in the Field of Otolaryngology * TUMORS OF THE NOSE, THROAT AND EAR * A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Abstract

LARYNX Davis¹ reports a biloculated cyst which was found following the patient's death on the table, before operation was started. The outer portion of the cyst freely communicated with the inner through the thyrohyoid membrane along the superior laryngeal vessels. There was no connection between the saccule or ventricle of the larynx and the cyst. Inside the larynx the cyst was sessile, growing from the inner surface of the right aryepiglottic fold. Davis reports a similar case shown by Mr. Cyril Horsford, in which operation was performed by Mr. Wilfred Trotter. He asserts that this type of cyst can be easily distinguished from the rarer cases of aerocele of the saccule of the larynx, but that extension into the neck cannot always be detected before operation. If the cyst bulges into the pyriform fossa or is of long duration, then it is suspected of being too extensive for intralaryngeal treatment.