title: Single-stage laryngotracheoplasty in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the outcomes of pediatric patients with laryngotracheal stenosis treated by single-stage laryngotracheoplasty.
  
  
  METHODS
  A single surgeon personal series retrospective review of 15 children undergoing single-stage laryngotracheoplasty for laryngeal stenosis over 4-year period (2004-2008).
  
  
  RESULTS
  15 patients (9 boys and 6 girls), with ages ranging from 1 month to 18 years, were operated. Using the Myer-Cotton grading system, 2 patients were diagnosed with grade 4 stenosis, 6 patients with grade 3 and 7 patients with grade 2. In10 cases, an LTP with anterior costal cartilage graft was performed; in one case an anterior and posterior LTP; in one case a partial cricotracheal resection and in 3 cases an anterior cricoids split. The overall success rate was 94%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Single stage laryngotracheoplasty is a safe and effective method for laryngotracheal stenosis in children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Silesia, Upper Silesian Center for Child Health, Medyków 16 Street, Katowice, Poland. ibielecki@sum.edu.pl
authors.forename: Ireneusz
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bielecki
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cofała
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D058753:Laryngoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D007829:Laryngostenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014132:Trachea / Q000601:surgery*; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome