Juvenile Laryngeal Papillomatosis: A New Complication

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Abstract
Extension of juvenile papillomas to the lung parenchyma is unusual. When it occurs, the patient's prognosis worsens because these lesions destroy lung tissue as they grow. Respiratory complications eventually occur in the presence of multiple nodular and cystic lesions due to the attendant parenchymal destruction. We have observed that pneumothorax can occur after the development of cystic pneumatoceles, presumably from the ball valve effect of a nodular lesion (Fig 3).

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