Spot diagnosis case – WIN A PRIZE!
In every ELS newsletter, we share a clinical case for practicing your spot diagnosis skills. Send your answer to europeanlaryngologicalsociety@gmail.com and win a copy of the 2nd Edition Surgery of Larynx and Trachea by Marc Remacle and Hans Eckel! The prize will be awarded by a lottery between the competitors and the winner will be announced in the next ELS newsletter.
Please send your replies for the current case by 30th September 2023.
Spot diagnosis case 9
Scenario: This 56-year-old female with a history of COVID-19 pneumonitis and ICU admission visits the ENT outpatient clinic with a chronic cough and shortness of breath on exertion. Flexible laryngoscopy doesn’t show any abnormalities and there is normal vocal cord movement. There are some interesting findings on flexible tracheobronchoscopy.
Questions:
1) What is the likely diagnosis?
2) What evidence of previous treatment do you see?
Spot diagnosis case 8 is now closed.
Scenario: This 65-year-old gentleman with a history of reflux disease presented with a sore throat, dysphonia and progressive shortness of breath over the past year. He’s a never smoker. CT showed a mixed density mass in the subglottis with ‘popcorn’ calcifications and there is no invasion to adjacent soft tissue or bone. Pathology shows granular calcifications in multinucleated chondrocytes.
Questions:
- What is the likely diagnosis? – Answer: low grade chondrosarcoma
- What treatment would you recommend, and what are your considerations regarding treatment? – Answer: conservative if asymptomatic, endoscopic laser debulking if symptomatic, laryngectomy is reserved for large tumours in which surgery would cause destabilisation of the cricoid.
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