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Vocal process granulomata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

D. J. McFerran ,
V. Abdullah ,
A. P. Gallimore ,
M. B. Pringle  and
C. B. Croft
D. J. McFerran*
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8DA.
V. Abdullah
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8DA.
A. P. Gallimore
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8DA.
M. B. Pringle
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8DA.
C. B. Croft
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8DA.
*
D. J. McFerran, The Royal Ear Hospital, Middlesex Hospital Outpatient Department, Cleveland Street, London W1P 5FD
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Abstract

Thecase records and histology of 34 patients with vocal process granulomata were reviewed. The five patients presenting most recently with idiopathic vocal process granulomata were investigated by axial computerized tomography (CT). Increased density of the arytenoid cartilage on the side of the lesion was found in all five cases. It is suggested that this indicates cartilage ossification, secondary to periochondritis. This perichondritis, playing either a primary or a secondary role in granuloma development, may explain the annoying tendency of vocal fold granulomata to recur after excision.

Keywords

Vocal foldGranulomaTomography, X-ray computed
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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 108 , Issue 3 , March 1994 , pp. 216 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1994

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