Instantaneous "video photography" with a low-cost black-and-white video printer: its value in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery.

Despite its shortcomings in black-and-white imagery and its print quality, the video printer described here is an inexpensive and convenient video image-printing instrument and is useful for documentation of anatomy and pathologic conditions of otolaryngologic structures. It is of great value in patient counselling and in development of a permanent pictorial record.