Marc Remacle is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Louvain, Belgium, and is in charge of voice and swallowing disorders at the ENT Department of the Luxembourg Hospital Center, Luxembourg. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology, and a founding member and former General Secretary of the European Laryngological Society, and a founding member and past President of the Confederation for European Oto-rhino-laryngology and Head & Neck Surgery. His main interests include the applications of laser-assisted and robotic surgery to laryngology and head and neck surgery

Hans Edmund Eckel is an internationally respected laryngologist and head & neck surgeon. He is Head of the Oto-rhino-laryngology Department in Klagenfurt, Austria. He is past President of the European Laryngological Society, the Austrian Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngolgy, Head and Neck Surgery, and the Confederation of the European ORL-Head & Neck surgery. He has published landmark papers on laser-assisted transoral microsurgery. He is also an editorial board member of the European Archives of ORL-Head Neck Surgery. His main interests are laryngology and applications of laser-assisted surgery.

Presents the latest advances in surgery of larynx and trachea for benign and cancer lesions

Meets the needs of both residents new to the field and specialists

Features a reader-friendly, highly didactical practical structure

Foreword.- Preface.- Physiology of larynx.- Assessment of Voice and respiratory function.- Fundamental of laryngeal surgery: approaches, instrumentation and basic microlaryngoscopic techniques.- Microphonosurgery using cold steel.- Laser-Assisted phonosurgery.- Laryngeal Framework Surgery.- Scar of the vocal fold.- Voice feminization.- Exercice induced laryngeal obstruction EILO.- Office-based procedures.- Laryngeal surgery in children.- Laryngeal papillomatosis.- Laryngeal trauma.- Glottic airway stenosis.- Subglottic and tracheal stenosis.-Tracheotomy.- Neurolaryngology.- Spasmodic dysphonia.- Therapeutic options.- Nerve reconstruction.- Preoperative assesment of laryngeal cancer.- HPV and laryngeal cancer.-Transoral approach for early cancers.- Transoral approach for extended cancers (T3-T4).-Open partial surgery for laryngeal cancers.- Total laryngectomy.- Principles of salvage laryngeal surgery.- Management of Tracheal Tumours.- Reconstruction of the laryngeal and pharyngeal defects.- Voice restoration.- Robotic surgery Da Vinci.- Robotic surgery flex system.- Surgery for Swallowing disorders.- Preoperative and postoperative speech therapy.