LATE RECURRENCES OF LARYNGEAL PAPILLOMATOSIS

Laryngeal papillomotasis recurred in 2 patients after 44 and 47 years of remission. The recurrence of papillomatosis after such lengthy peri ods of remission underscores the fact that, while surgical treatment o f laryngeal papillomatosis may maintain the airway and voice, and in s ome cases control clinically overt disease, it does not address the su bclinical mucosal human papillomavirus infection that may lead to recu rrence many years after surgery.