Operative treatment and postoperative management of saccular cyst and laryngocele.
We describe two infants with respiratory difficulty. The respiratory difficulty in one infant was secondary to a lateral saccular cyst, and the other infant had a laryngocele. Surgical treatment was marsupialization of the lesion. Postoperatively, a polyethylene endotracheal tube was left in place for three days to serve as a postoperative airway and also as a stent. With this procedure, we were able to avoid tracheostomy and recurrence of disease.
D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D003560:Cysts / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care