O8 Laryngectomey, Laryngectomees EXAM 2 Flashcards
What is the difference between “laryngectomy” and “laryngectomee”?
Laryngectomy: a surgical procedure
Laryngectomee: a person who has undergone a laryngectomy.
What is the nickname laryngectomy patients often use for themselves?
“Lary” or “Larys”
Who performed a laryngectomy on a beagle in the 1820s?
Albers
Name the 6 laryngectomy surgeons that Blanton talked about in class.
- Albers
- Patrick Watson
- Theodore Billroth
- Bottini
- Von Langenbeck
- Lange
What was the biggest cause of death after surgeries in the 1800s?
Infection
When did laryngectomy enter the surgical literature?
In 1866 after Patrick Watson wrote about a laryngectomy he performed on a man who had laryngeal deterioration from Syphilis (surgery was unsuccessful)
When did Theordore Billroth remove the larynx of a man who had subglottal cancer (who died a year later)?
1873
What did Bottini of Italy do in 1875?
Performed surgery on a 24 year old man who had cancer. The patient lived another 5 years!
What did Von Langenbeck develop in 1875 for laryngectomy surgeries?
The T-shaped incision, still used today (prior to this, incisions were straight-line)
He had to tie off 41 blood vessels in a patient, and the man lived 4 months post-surgery and then died of cancer.
Who performed the first laryngectomy in North America, and when was it performed?
Lange, in 1879
Was laryngectomy well-thought of in 1887?
No. 103 had been written about in the literature, and only 9 patients had survived longer than a year. Between 1800 and 1900, half of the patients died on the operating table.
True or false– by 1925, laryngectomy had become an accepted procedure.
TRUE
How many successful laryngeal transplants have there been in the world today?
Only 2! One of them was at UC Davis.
Define “incidence”
How many NEW cases in a given period of time (usually a year)
Define “prevalence”
How many people are LIVING WITH the disease within a given period of time
