The Journal of Laryngology & Otology

Table of Contents - January 1993 - Volume 107, Issue 01  

Clinical Records

Fatal massive upper respiratory tract haemorrhage: an unusual complication of localized amyloidosis of the larynx

Louis Tsun-Cheung Chowa1 c1, Wing-Hing Chowa2 and Bobby Shui-fung Shuma3

a1 Institute of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong

a2 Department of Medicine, Grantham Hospital Aberdeen, Hong Kong

a3 Forensic Pathology Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong.

Abstract

Localized amyloidosis of the larynx is usually described as a non-bleeding lesion. We report a patient with localized laryngeal amyloidosis who developed a massive upper respiratory tract haemorrhage and died. This potentially fatal complication of localized amyloidosis of the larynx merits recognition as the disease could be controlled in most instances by surgical excision of the amyloid deposit.

(Accepted August 08 1992)

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c1 Dr Louis T. C. Chow, Institute of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Wylie Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Fax: (852)-385-2455

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