Radiophonosurgery of vocal fold nodules.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the current support in the literature for radiophonosurgery in cases of vocal fold nodules.


RESULTS
Radiophonosurgery is a recent innovation in the field of laryngeal surgery. It is emerging as a reliable and practical method for treating benign superficial vocal fold lesions that is increasingly becoming popular. It induces an excellent subjective and objective improvement in voice parameters. Histologically, it produces unremarkable lateral thermal damage and char penetration, which is quite crucial in a functional surgery such as in phonosurgery. Well designed probes are still lacking in the market.


CONCLUSIONS
Radiophonosurgery provides a new approach for patients with vocal fold nodules. It combines the advantages of both cold knife and laser phonosurgery and is easy, well tolerated, precise and effective with excellent tactile and hemostatic properties.
Ragab
Sameh M
SM
Tanta University Hospitals, Tanta, Egypt. sragab@doctors.org.uk
D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000601:surgery*; D014833:Voice Quality