title: Partial laryngectomy with cricoid reconstruction: thyroid carcinoma invading the larynx.
abstract: Laryngotracheal invasion worsens the prognosis of thyroid cancer and the surgical approach for laryngotracheal invasion is controversial. In this paper, partial full-thickness excision of the cricoid cartilage with supracricoid laryngectomy and reconstruction of existing defect with thyroid cartilage are explained in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma invading the thyroid cartilage and cricoid cartilage without intraluminal invasion. Surgical indication should not be established by the site of involvement in thyroid carcinomas invading the larynx, as in primary cancers of the larynx. We think that partial laryngectomy according to the involvement site and the appropriate reconstruction techniques should be used for thyroid cancer invading the larynx.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kerem
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ozturk
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serdar
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9539-3916
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akyildiz
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Makay