Corrective surgery for enlarged laryngeal nodes

  Enlarged laryngeal nodes often occur in women. The incidence is about 3 in 10,000 and causes a lot of trouble in women’s lives due to the enlargement. Not only does it affect social life, but it also affects marriage. Many women are very distressed by this. Some are even seriously depressed.  There are two causes of enlarged laryngeal nodes in women: increased hormone levels and increased non-hormone levels. The general hormone is androgen (testosterone) and this kind of women often accompanied by other male signs, such as thick bones, beard development, cheekbone protrusion, muscle outline. The other kind is the one with increased levels of non-hormones. The latter is caused by the overdevelopment of the thyroid cartilage that forms the laryngeal nodes, the exact cause of which is not very clear. Xie Yangchun, Department of Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences The correction of enlarged laryngeal nodes is definitely ineffective non-surgically, and the surgical room is an effective means of correction. Generally choose the incision at the junction of the jaw and neck, horizontal wrinkles in the incision is generally about 3 cm. Sutures are generally not obvious traces after one year. One is that the incision itself is concealed. Rather, it is concealed in the horizontal crease. Through the incision the superficial surface of the cervicalis brevis muscle will be stripped to the surface of the thyroid cartilage, the cervicalis brevis muscle will be incised, and the upper cut of the thyroid cartilage will be exposed by stripping. The muscle on the surface of the thyroid cartilage is stripped through a special stripper, primarily to prevent damage to the supraglottic nerve. This is the key to the surgery, especially the outer 1/3 of the superior incision cannot be peeled off, and the thyroid cartilage in the laryngeal node area is gradually removed and thinned. Gradually become flat. Attention is paid to stop bleeding.  Post-operative care The stitches are usually removed in about nine days.