OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate factors predisposing to occupational dysphonia in a group of professional voice users. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study involved 374 patients treated in the Clinic of Otolaryngology and the Phoniatric Outpatient Clinic, Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Białystok in 1999--2001. Group I consisted of 309 patients qualified as ...

UNLABELLED Children dysphonia studies have reported an incidence of 4.4 to 30.3%. GOALS To establish the prevalence of dysphonia in children, based on the opinion of the parents, acoustic and vocal-perceptual assessments, associated symptoms, risk factors and videolaryngoscopy findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS The parents from 2,000 children answered a questionnaire about the vocal quality of...

UNLABELLED To identify the grade and evolution of dysphagia and dysphonia in patients undergoing supracricoid laringectomy, and to study the association of these findings with clinical and surgical variables. METHOD The study included 22 cases undergoing supracricoid laringectomy at the Head and Neck Surgery and Otolaryngology Department of the Heliopolis Hospital - Brasil, and referred to sp...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the interobserver variability and the test-retest variability of the Dysphonia Severity Index (DSI), a multiparametric instrument to assess voice quality. METHODS The DSI was measured in 30 nonsmoking volunteers without voice complaints or voice disorders by two speech pathologists. The subjects were measured on 3 different days, with an ...

introduction: injury to cranial nerves ix, x, and xii is a known complication of laryngoscopy and intubation. here we present a patient with concurrent hypoglossal and recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis after rhinoplasty. case report: the patient was a 27-year-old woman who was candidate for rhinoplastic surgery. the next morning after the operation, the patient complained of dysphonia and a s...

Introduction. Modern diagnostics of laryngeal diseases is based on the use video endoscopic technologies. The authors article, having almost thirty years experience with various methods endoscopy, proposed a classification examination. Objective. To develop an algorithm for application examination in voice professionals functional and organic dysphonia. Materials methods. From 2020 to 2022, 230...