AIM
Verify the use of immunohistochemistry as a method to measure all forms of elastic fibers at human vocal folds.
STUDY DESIGN
Transversal cohort.
MATERIAL AND METHOD
We collected vocal folds following these criterion: age between 25 and 40, Caucasian men, dead by gun shot, within 12 hours of death, without instrumentation of the larynx or suspicion of neck injury and without mucosal lesi...
