Laryngocele: a case report and review.
A 60 year old man had a symptomless mass in the neck for two years. Over two weeks he developed hoarseness and dysphagia and successfully underwent excision of a combined internal and external laryngocele. There is some disagreement in the literature as to when an enlarged saccule is a laryngocele and also as to whether laryngoceles result from chronic straining such as playing a wind instrument. Laryngeal carcinoma occasionally occurs in association with a clinical laryngocele. When sought for in laryngectomy specimens the incidence of laryngocele in patients with laryngeal carcinoma has been recorded at 18%.
D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006685:Hoarseness / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed