Impediments to clinical diagnosis and management of juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in

Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background: To report the impediments to the diag-nosis and management of children with Juvenile-Onset Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis as seen in a teaching hospital in West Africa. Methods: Ret-rospectively analysed study of participants requiring surgical intervention for histologically confirmed ju-venile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis ma-naged at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Uni-versity of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin over a 10-year period (2002-2011) using prospectively collated database. Results: Juvenile-Onset Recurrent Respi-ratory Papillomatosis constituted 8.8 % of 307 laryn