A simple and inexpensive method for laryngeal photography with the operating microscope.
After a brief review of the history of laryngeal photography, a simple and inexpensive method as used at the ENT Clinic of Ljubljana is described. The equipment consists of a standard 35 mm Olympus OM-1 camera attached to the Olympus of OME-J operating microscope and an Olympus T-32 flash unit connected via a large bore flexible light cable to a specially designed laryngoscope. With the equipment described excellent photographs can be obtained even in inexperienced hands without interference with endoscopic procedures.
D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D007830:Larynx / Q000473:pathology*; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods*