BACKGROUND Little information is available regarding the prevalence of laryngeal pathology in adults. PURPOSE To estimate the prevalence of occult laryngeal pathology in a community-based cohort of adults over 40 years of age. METHODS One hundred consecutive volunteers over age 40 with no history of voice disorders were enrolled. All completed a self-administered laryngeal symptom questionn...

OBJECTIVE To survey the role of Helicobacter pylori at the tissue level as a cause of squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx. DESIGN A case-control study. SETTING In an Otolaryngology Ward at an academic university. SUBJECTS Patients with laryngeal cancer as cases and patients with benign laryngeal lesion as controls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE In all subjects, specimens of laryngeal tissue we...

Background: Laryngeal dystonia is a task-specific focal dystonia of the internal laryngeal muscles. Methods: Peer-reviewed articles on laryngeal dystonia from PUBMED were identified. Manuscripts that supported selected points of discussion were chosen. Illustrative figures and videos from the authors’ personal files support selected ideas. Results: This manuscript presents a comprehensive overv...

We present a case report of a 66-year-old female with a laryngeal saccular cyst that was treated endoscopically. Although this is an uncommon laryngeal anomaly, when it is recognized and managed appropriately early in the course of its presentation patient complications and morbidity can be avoided. The laryngeal saccular cyst can mimic or be associated with other, more serious, laryngeal patho...

Left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy rarely results from cardiac disease. We present 2 cases of left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy caused by thoracic saccular aortic aneurysms. One patient suffered an aortic aneurysm rupture one month after the advent of hoarseness, necessitating emergency surgery with aortic arch replacement. The other patient underwent elective aortic arch replacement surge...

OBJECTIVE Head and neck involvement in Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) is not unusual. However, laryngeal involvement is a relatively infrequent manifestation and ENT specialists should consider it in differential diagnosis in laryngeal lesions of AIDS patients and/or subjects from the Mediterranean area. METHODS Case report and review of the literature in English. CLINICAL CASE Male patient presenti...

The present study attempted to investigate the acoustic characteristics of Mandarin laryngeal and esophageal speech. Eight normal laryngeal and seven esophageal speakers participated in the acoustic experiments. Results from acoustic analyses of syllables /ma/and /ba/ indicated that, F0, intensity, and signal-to-noise ratio of laryngeal speech were significantly higher than those of esophageal ...

The aim of this study was to determine the possible relevance of the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) expression in laryngeal cancer as a prognostic criterion and to analyse the correlation between the expression and clinical and pathological features vs. survival rates. The immunohistochemical staining was used to detect the expression of pRb in 130 samples of laryngeal cancer and in 22 specimens ...

BACKGROUND Focal laryngeal candidiasis is not reported widely and is very infrequently recognized clinically. This disease is rare and may occur after pulmonary, pharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis or as part of disseminated disease. It is also secondary to inhaled steroid therapy which is usually mild and has been reported in 10-15 percent of patients taking these medications. CASE PRESENT...

Phoniatric Aspects of Laryngeal Disorders Hajime Hirose, M. D. Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo The disorder of voice is one of the most common problems of laryngeal pathologies. In the present report, phoniatric profiles of typical laryngeal disorders were presented and the relationship between the characteristics of abnormal voice and ...