An eight-year-old girl could be the youngest person to have undergone surgery to remove a rare cancerous throat tumour.

We report a new surgical procedure to treat intractable aspiration: closure of the larynx, using double hinged flaps of the vocal folds and false vocal folds. The anterosuperior portion of the ...

Cartilage cells that contain fat explain why some skeletal tissues are less rigid than others, and could one day be grown in ...

Tonsillectomy is a surgery to remove the tonsils, lymphatic organs in the throat that protect your body from infection. Healthcare providers may consider removing the tonsils in the following ...

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Hospital Sírio Libanês in São Paulo after undergoing larynx surgery Sunday for a lesion in his left vocal cord.

In a hyoid suspension surgery, a surgeon moves the base of the tongue and elastic throat tissue called the epiglottis forward. This helps open the breathing passage more deeply into the throat.