This is a prospective randomised controlled trial conducted at two tertiary referral hospitals in Hong Kong to compare the clinical and functional outcomes of office-based awake transnasal laser-assisted laryngeal surgery (TNLS) under local anesthesia to traditional microlaryngeal surgery for vocal cord cyst under general anesthesia.
Patients with vocal cord cysts
older than 18-year-old
able to independently provide consent
able to tolerate flexible laryngoscopy would be recruited
under 18-year-old
unable to independently give an informed consent
unable to tolerate flexible laryngoscopy
allergic to local anesthesia