title: [Total glossectomy without laryngectomy. Surgical techniques and its controversies].
abstract: Total glossectomy is the procedure for entire removal of the tongue, practice considered as one of the most mutilating possible done in head and neck surgery. Vital functions altered after tongue resection are: mastication, language and swallowing. It's controversial the role played by total laryngectomy considering the definitive split of respiratory and digestive tracts. Some AA. perform apart both ectomies pending of the suitable rehabilitation.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Report of a case of glossectomy recently operated maintaining the larynx and review the several operative steps, the complications until satisfactory swallow was achieved and perusal of literature on this controversial subject.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de O.R.L., Hospital General Río Carrión, Palencia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Acuña García
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Alonso Treceño
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Pampliega
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moralejo Martín
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raouf
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005927:Glossectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007825:Laryngectomy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Glosectomía total sin laringuectomía. Técnica quirúrgica y controversias.