A strange form of dysphonia..
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A 40-year-old man, with no medical and surgical history apart rom smoking, estimated at 15 pack-years, consulted for dysphoia associated with disabling snoring. The dysphonia had been resent for 6 months and first occurred after “straining his voice”. asolaryngeal fibroscoscopy (or fiber-optic endoscopy) revealed left supraglottic submucosal swelling, displacing the ventricular and associated with immobile vocal cords. No mucosal lesion was etected. Computed tomography of the neck and chest, performed lsewhere, was not contributive. Panendoscopy revealed normal
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تاریخ انتشار 2015