UNLABELLED Dysphonia may impair the quality of communication and social relations of people, thereby directly affecting quality of life. It is common knowledge amongst professionals involved with the treatment of voice disorders the need for objective protocols to evaluate voice quality and measure its impact on the individual's quality of life. AIM To associate life quality with the degree o...

BACKGROUND Occupational voice disorders are characterized by rich symptomatology, which is dominated by symptoms by the vocal tract discomfort. Therefore, in the management it is important to consider these subjective complaints. The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of using the vocal tract discomfort scale (VTD) in evaluating the effects of rehabilitation concerning occupational d...

BACKGROUND Parsonage-Turner syndrome is a rare and painful peripheral neuropathy that usually presents as brachial plexus neuritis and also has other nerve involvement. METHODS AND RESULTS Herein, we report the case of a patient with right recurrent nerve palsy as the first clinically isolated manifestation of underlying Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Idiopathic dysphonia was the only symptom pre...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Special consideration has recently been given to cepstral analysis with mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs). The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of MFCCs in acoustic analysis for diagnosing occupational dysphonia in comparison to subjective and objective parameters of voice evaluation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study comprised 2 groups, one of 5...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the longitudinal effects of botulinum toxin type A (Botox) injections on voice-related quality of life (V-RQOL) for patients with adductory spasmodic dysphonia. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Academic tertiary care referral center. PARTICIPANTS Forty-two patients who presented to our institution with dysphonia and were diagnosed as having adductory spasmodic dy...

INTRODUCTION Laryngeal dysfunction may be divided into three categories; organic, neurologic and functional disorders. Dysphonia and hoarseness are the most common symptoms and, in some cases, the only signs of laryngeal dysfunction. In differential diagnosis of any type of chronic hoarseness, a neoplastic process must be considered and, thus continuous light video laryngoscopy can provide impo...

PURPOSE To verify the occurrence of signs and symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction in individuals with behavioral dysphonia, and to compare it with the results obtained by individuals without vocal complaints. METHODS Participants were 128 adult individuals with ages between 14 and 74 years, divided into two groups: behavioral dysphonia (61 subjects) and without vocal complaints (...

Syphilis has reappeared in the form of epidemics in France and other western countries since the end of the 1990s, affecting mostly homosexual and bisexual male patients half of whom are HIV-positive (1–4). During their haematogenous spread the spirochetes can infect various organs including the head and neck. Although rare, the larynx may be involved at any stage of the disease, but mostly at ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of laryngopharyngeal neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on dysphonia in patients with dysphagia caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHODS Eighteen patients participated in this study. The subjects were divided into NMES (n=12) and conventional swallowing training only (CST, n=6) groups. The NMES group received NMES combined with CST...