Patients presenting with distal weakness can be a diagnostic challenge; the eventual diagnosis often depends upon accurate clinical phenotyping. We present a mother and daughter with a rare form of distal hereditary motor neuropathy type 7 in whom the diagnosis became apparent by initial difficulty in singing, from early vocal cord dysfunction. This rare neuropathy has now been identified in tw...

The electroglottography method is an instrumental analysis by the device called Laryngograph, which can be practically applied in the speech signal analysis for people with voice disorders issues. In this paper capabilities of this device are estimated. A very interesting fact is that visualization of the speech signal obtained with the use of Laryngograph device allows to detect the acoustical...

A tracheal tumour was discovered by radiology in a 36-year-old man with haemoptysis, bronchitis, and dyspnoea. The tumour was situated 5 cm below the vocal cords. A frozen section of a bronchoscopic biopsy specimen confirmed it to be a neurofibroma. Resection was performed endoscopically.

Cryptococcus neoformans can directly infect the vocal cords. Endoscopic findings were undistinctive from most infiltrative diseases. Tissue biopsy was essential for the diagnosis. Inhaled corticosteroids can predispose to the infection, and fluconazole 400 mg daily for at least 6 weeks appeared to be minimal to achieve a permanent cure.

Introduction Thickening or oedema of the vocal cords and myxoedematous infiltration of the laryngeal submucosa may be responsible for the laryngeal symptoms of myxoedema in some patients, but respiratory difficulty due to laryngeal obstruction is extremely rare as a complication of myxoedema. If, however, upper respiratory tract infection is superimposed on a myxoedematous larynx an acute emerg...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an evolving noninvasive imaging modality and has been used to image the larynx during surgical endoscopy. The design of an OCT sampling device capable of capturing images of the human larynx during a typical office based laryngoscopy examination is discussed. Both patient's and physician's movements were addressed. In vivo OCT imaging of the human larynx is...