title: Endoscopic resection of a vocal cord polyp with a bipolar snare in a patient with cervical disc herniation.
abstract: A 55-year-old male with progressively worsening hoarseness was found to have a vocal cord polyp of >10 mm in diameter on the right true cord. It was necessary to remove the polyp in order to prevent airway obstruction by prolapse. However, the patient was a poor candidate for resection by standard otolaryngologic procedures because of the large size of the polyp and because he had a symptomatic cervical disc herniation. Therefore, endoscopic resection under general anesthesia using a bipolar electrocautery snare was selected. This case was our first attempt to treat a vocal cord polyp using this technique, and we found that polypectomy with the bipolar snare was an efficient and safe method for the treatment of this lesion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka, 545-8585, Japan, piacere_minaminohiroaki@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minamino
authors.forename: Yasuaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagami
authors.forename: Kazunari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tominaga
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsushita
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugimori
authors.forename: Masatsugu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shiba
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Hiroyoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iguchi
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: Tetsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arakawa
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D004598:Electrosurgery; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications*; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D013517:Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011127:Polyps / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D014827:Vocal Cords