Surgeon Peter Belafsky had been tinkering with ways to treat oropharyngeal dysphagia--a swallowing disorder that when severe can prevent people from being able to swallow at all--for years. But it ...

The arytenoid cartilage is a pair of pyramid-shaped pieces of cartilage found in the larynx (voice box), which are essential to the production of vocal sound. Cartilage is tough, yet flexible tissue ...

(a) Axial cervical postmortem CT scan and (b) zoomed section of the cricoid cartilage (box in a) of a 27-year-old woman who died of strangulation. Three-dimensional volumerendered reconstructions from ...