Artificial Larynx

Designed to be implanted in two stages, engineers and surgeons in Stasbourg, France have successfully given a 65 year old man, suffering from laryngeal cancer, an artificial larynx.  After removing the man’s diseased larynx, surgeons put in a titanium ring and allowed tissue to grow around it.  Then, months later, they inserted a valve device into the ring for a functioning artificial larynx.  MORE

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