title: A case of laryngeal angioleiomyoma and review of literature.
abstract: Angioleiomyoma is a rare benign vascular smooth muscle tumor that arise from the tunica media of veins and arteries. Here a case of laryngeal angioleiomyoma in a 57-year-old Chinese man is reported. The patient presented with dysphagia for one and half-month and dyspnea during the previous one week, was hospitalized for treatment with a tracheotomy and laryngofissure with the unblock mass excision. Final pathological evaluation of the neoplasm confirmed a diagnosis of laryngeal angioleiomyoma. The patient had been followed up 4 years with no recurrence of disease. This study demonstrated the clinical feature, pathology, treatment and outcome of the rare disease of laryngeal angioleiomyoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Jilin University 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, Jilin Province, China.
authors.forename: Xue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Jilin University 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, Jilin Province, China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Jilin University 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, Jilin Province, China.
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Jilin University 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, Jilin Province, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Jilin University 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, Jilin Province, China.
authors.forename: Xinmeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Jilin University 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun 130041, Jilin Province, China.
authors.forename: Chunshun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jin
keywords: Angioleiomyoma; laryngeal tumor; treatment