Our experience with supracricoid partial laryngectomy with either CHP or CHEP suggests that this technique is a valuable alternative to radiotherapy for T2-T4 glottosupraglottic carcinomas, particularly those with extension and invasion of the anterior commissure. It allows for preservation of a good laryngeal function without altering the long-term survival, keeping total laryngectomy as a salvage procedure.

Restoration of laryngeal function after supracricoid partial laryngectomy with cricohyoidoepiglottopexy is satisfactory. Although most of the patients seem to recover normal swallowing function, severe voice alterations appear to be inevitable.

The treatment of laryngeal cancer is always a compromise between oncological efficiency and preservation of function. Our data suggest that, assuming proper selection of patients, radiation therapy and surgery yield similar local control and survival rates. The functional disadvantages after surgery are moderate and clearly counterbalanced by a significant decrease in long-term laryngeal preservation rate after radiotherapeutic treatment.

Percutaneous transtracheal high frequency jet ventilation (TTJV) in adults is