Necati ENVER, Can DORUK, Erdoğan KARA, Hızır ASLIYÜKSEK, Bora BAŞARAN

A morphometric analysis of laryngeal anatomy: A cadaveric study

Objectives: This study aims to describe morphometric measurements of the laryngeal framework and discuss their implications for phonosurgery among Turkish subjects. Patients and Methods: Larynges from 40 male and 20 female fresh cadavers were extracted during autopsy in a forensic science institution between January 2015 and December 2015. Measurements were taken of the length of membranous and cartilaginous vocal fold mVF, cVF , width and thickness of VF wVF, tVF , anterior and posterior subglottic distance AS, PS , width and height of thyroid cartilage wTC, hTC , and distance between projection of anterior commissure to thyroid cartilage inferior border pAC to TIB . Results: For all parameters, median and mean values were higher in male groups, but the differences were significant only in pAC to TIB, wTC, cVF and mVF groups p

Keywords:

Anatomy, laryngoplasty, larynx,

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