[Laryngectomy with Tucker's epiglottoplasty].

From 1980 to 1987, 37 patients were operated with a reconstructive anterior frontal laryngectomy including epiglottoplasty such as described by Tucker. These patients presented with epidermoid carcinomas of the glottis. The carcinological results are satisfactory, with a survival rate of 33 of 37 patients at 3 years and 22 of 25 patients at 5 years. However, the control of the paraglottic space still is insufficient after this type of surgery, and we reserve it for the tumors confined to the glottic level, without impairment of mobility. The anterior frontal laryngectomy performed is extensive and frontolateral. It is used for a few of its former indications, as showed by the comparison of the periods before and after 1980.