Improved hygiene and public awareness have led to a steady decline in the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in developed countries. Nonetheless, long-term sequelae like unilateral vocal fold paralysis should not be underestimated in a modern society. We report three patients with chronic lung fibrosis following pulmonary tuberculosis leading to unilateral vocal fold paralysis. All three patie...

Phoniatrics is the medical specialty for communicative disorders. It is related with the normal, pathological, and professional processes that involve voice, speech, language, swallowing, and hearing. Besides being a specific discipline, it is also a discipline that combines the accumulation of knowledge from both medical and nonmedical fields of science.Most importantmedical specialties that c...

INTRODUCTION We present a patient with a novel finding of bilateral mucosal bridges, bilateral type III trans-vocal fold sulci vocales, and a vocal fold polyp. Although sulci and mucosal bridges occur in the vocal folds, it is rare to find multiples of these lesions in a single patient, and it is even more uncommon when they occur in conjunction with a vocal fold polyp. To our knowledge, this i...

A system of remotely detecting vocal fold pathologies using telephone quality speech recorded during a telephone dialogue is presented. This study aims at developing a dialogue system using VoiceXML for remote diagnosis of voice pathology. To assess the accuracy of the system, a database of 631 clean speech files of the sustained phonation of the vowel sound /a/ (58 normal subjects, 573 patholo...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a degenerative neurologic disorder that can affect vocal fold mobility. Our aim was to further elucidate the impact of vocal fold motion impairment (VFMI) in MSA. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS We undertook a retrospective review of all MSA patients reporting voice or respiratory symptoms from 1975 to 2010 at Mayo Clini...

The influence of the thyroarytenoid (TA) and cricothyroid (CT) muscle activation on vocal fold stiffness and eigenfrequencies was investigated in a muscularly controlled continuum model of the vocal folds. Unlike the general understanding that vocal fold fundamental frequency was determined by vocal fold tension, this study showed that vocal fold eigenfrequencies were primarily determined by vo...

OBJECTIVES This study correlates the Singing Voice Handicap Index (SVHI) scores with videostrobolaryngoscopy in healthy professional singers as a measure of self-perceived vocal health versus actual pathology seen on examination. The objective was to measure the strength of self-assessment among professional singers and determine if there is a benefit of combining SVHI and videostrobolaryngosco...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to develop an evidence-based consensus statement regarding use of laryngeal electromyography (LEMG) for diagnosis and treatment of vocal fold paralysis after recurrent laryngeal neuropathy (RLN). METHODS Two questions regarding LEMG were analyzed: (1) Does LEMG predict recovery in patients with acute unilateral or bilateral vocal fold paralysis? (2) ...