[Nineteen years experience with surgical correction of disorders of swallowing and voice following vagus nerve paralysis (author's transl)].

An operation for the correction of swallowing and voice following paralysis of the vagus nerve is described. The operation is divided into four parts which are performed either in one or two stages. These include: 1. extramucosal myotomy of the pars fundiformis of the cricopharyngeus muscle; 2. correction of vocal cord paralysis by the rotation of the arytenoid cartilage and cartilage implant into the paralyzed vocal cord; 3. resection of the paralyzed wall of the pharynx; 4. fixation of the paralyzed soft palate to the posterior wall of the pharynx. Nineteen years experience with the four different parts of the operation are discussed.