Laryngeal stenosis from endotracheal intubation. A review of 58 cases.

During the decade of the 1970s, the Department of Otolaryngology at the Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center encountered 58 patients who requried tracheotomy for laryngeal stenosis secondary to endotracheal intubation. This included 19 children and 39 adults. We treated 50 of these patients, of whom 35 (70%) were decannulated after endoscopic management alone. One other patient could have been decannulated but needed the tracheotomy for medical reasons. Two other will probably be decannulated in the near future. Eight patients underwent open reconstructive procedures.