More than half of patients who present with the symptom of hoarseness show benign vocal fold changes. The clinician should be familiar with modern diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities of benign vocal fold changes in order to ensure an optimal and individualized attention to voice patients. Basic knowledge of the etiology are provided for targeted phonosurgical or conservative therapy. This ...

HYPOTHESIS Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis after thyroidectomy can be unrecognized without routine laryngoscopy, and patients have a good potential for recovery during follow-up. DESIGN A prospective evaluation of vocal cord function before and after thyroidectomy. Periodic vocal cord assessment was performed until recovery of cord function. Persistent cord palsy for longer than 12 months...

Vocal cord dysfunction is a well recognized respiratory condition in which adduction of the vocal cords during either inspiration or expiration, or both, causes functional airways obstruction. Diagnosis is usually made by laryngofibreoscopy, however treatment of this condition has generally been unsatisfactory, requiring a multi-disciplinary approach consisting of speech therapy, psychological ...

This paper reports a study on short-time subharmonic pitch breaks in vocal fold vibration, which are found to be a common feature of the human voice in spoken language. The observed pitch breaks correspond to a change in periodicity of the electrolaryngograph (Lx) signal. This paper presents a nonlinear dynamical system capable of producing time-series with subharmonic pitch breaks. The resulti...

BACKGROUND self-assessment of the impact of vocal deviation in the quality of life of erudite singers. AIM to verify whether the presence of vocal complaints in erudite singers produces quality of life handicap in the use of singing voice and whether this handicap is related to gender, age, vocal classification or time of singing. METHOD fifty-nine professional erudite choir singers answere...

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is an uncommon neoplastic disorder arising from B-cell series lymphocytes and comprises 3% of plasma cell neoplasms and 0.1% of laryngeal carcinomas. Isolated EMP of the true vocal cord is an extremely rare lesion. Only 9 cases have been reported in the English medical literature. We report a case of isolated EMP of the right true vocal cord in a 55-year-old ma...

The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) is an essential nerve for phonation and psychosocial interaction. Throughout the annals oflaryngological history, vocal cord paralysis has been a well recognised disorder. A rich heritage of scientific investigation and research has considered the complexity of vocal cord function, laryngoscopic presentation and surgical rehabilitation. Identification and pre...

Aim of the study was the assessment of total thyroidectomy (TT) value as a treatment method of goiter with particular emphasis on the results of laryngological examination. material and methods. From 15th April 2008 to 1st July 2009 there were 125 (72.7%) TTs, 12 (7%) TTs and appropriate lymphadenectomies, 9 (5.2%) near TTs, 14 (8.1%) lobectomies, 5 (2.9%) completion thyroidectomies and 6 (3.4%...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the influence of age on laryngeal dimensions is essential for all practitioners whose interest is the pediatric airway. Early cadaver studies documented that the larynx is conically shaped, with the apex of the cone caudally positioned at the nondistensible cricoid cartilage. These dimensions change during childhood, as the larynx assumes a more cylindrical shape. The au...