Table I.

Patient demographics.

Patient	Sex	Age at surgery	Type of surgery	Date of surgery	Main manifestations	Time of symptom onset (postoperative day)	Diagnosis	Treatment
1	M	57	CHP+A	May 2010	Dysphagia, absence of sensivity of hypopharyngeal– laryngeal structures	9 days	FEES, neck 3D CT, VFSS	Surgical revision + laryngeal injection of Vox Implants
2	M	62	CHP	October 2011	Dysphagia, reduced sensivity of hypopharyngeal– laryngeal structures	9 days	FEES, neck 3D CT	Logopaedic rehabilitation, laryngeal injection of Vox Implants
3	M	58	CHEP	February 2011	Fever, infection and diastasis of cervical wound, bleeding	6 days	Neck 3D CT	Antibiotic therapy + surgical revision
4	M	65	CHEP+A	November 2011	Bleeding	8 days	Intraoperative	Surgical revision
5	M	54	THEP +A	June 2007	Laterocervical fistula	10 days	Intraoperative	Surgical revision
6	M	65	CHP+A	June 2009	Dysphagia	9 days	FEES, neck CT, VFSS	Laryngeal injection of Vox Implants + surgical revision
7	M	65	SHL +A	June 2004	Dysphagia	9 days	Intraoperative	Surgical revision + laryngeal injection of Vox Implants
8	M	54	CHP	September 2005	Aspiration pneumonia, dyspnoea, dysphonia	27 days	Intraoperative	Surgical revision
9	M	63	CHP+A	August 2008	Dysphagia, aspiration pneumonia, arytenoid paralysis	9 days	FEES neck, 3D CT, cervical slice CT	Surgical revision + laryngeal injection of Vox Implants
10	F	49	CHP	September 2008	Dysphagia		FEES, neck 3D CT	Surgical revision + laryngeal injection of Vox Implants

M, male; F, female; CHEP, cricohyoidoepiglottopexy; CHP, cricohyoidopexy; THEP, tracheohyoidoepiglottopexy; A, arytenoid; SHL, supraglottic horizontal laryingectomy; FEES, functional endoscopic evaluation of swallowing; VFSS, videofluorographic swallowing study.