Analysis of surgical therapy for epidermoid carcinoma of the laryngeal glottis

Four hundred sixty‐three patients with glottic carcinoma were treated by surgical techniques with or without preoperative irradiation. Two hundred eighty‐one had hemilaryngectomy and 182 total laryngectomy procedures. The overall cure rate for the hemilaryngectomy group was 91 percent and 80 percent for the total laryngectomy group, with an overall cure rate of 87 percent.