Zur Klinik und Pathogenese der Stinimlippenpolypen

Abstract

Summary.

The report comprises 19 cases of solitary polypi of the vocal chords. 14 of the cases were men and 5 women. They were mostly situated in the medial third, more seldom in the anterior third and only in one case in the posterior third. The polypi of the vocal chords represent as other polypi a hyperplasia of the subepithelial tissue and develop on the basis of an inflammation, as sequelae to laryngitis, probably from a fold or swelling of the mucous membrane, and very often already in the subacute stage of the laryngitis.

Characteristic for their histological structure are loose tissue, containing much oedematous liquor, abundant vascularization and blood suffusions of different age. When the walls of the blood vessels are thin and stagnation is present, blood suffusions will easily appear, and the polypus will be squeezed between the vocal chords. The increase of the polypi is chiefly due to stagnation and suffusions, and is consequently at least partly of mechanical origin.