Erratum to: Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2010) 267:551–555 DOI 10.1007/s00405-009-1124-3

Unfortunately, there are two inadvertent mistakes in “Materials and methods”. The beginning date of the case series should be March 2003 instead of March 2006. The number of patients who had undergone total laryngectomy and partial laryngectomy should be 36 and 11, respectively.