Values for acoustic voice measurements were obtained from 88 normal individuals and 98 pathological cases of mass lesions of vocal fold and 50 cases of unilateral vocal fold paralysis. Overall, all items reflecting perturbations of pitch and amplitude as well as glottal noise were significantly higher in the groups of patients compared with the normal group. The measurement of normalized noise ...

Background: Phonomicrosurgery is a challenging and evolving field. One of the key techniques used for this is micro-flap technique used along with cold micro instruments. Objective: To convey the role of Microflap technique in phonosurgery and the role of basic microlaryngeal instrumnets in such surgery when sophisticated phonomicrosurgical instruments are not available. Methods: This is a retr...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the verbal interactions of parents with their infants in the first months of life and to test the hypothesis that reciprocal vocalizations of mother-infant dyads would be more frequent than those of father-infant dyads. METHODS This prospective cohort study included 33 late preterm and term infants. Sixteen-hour language recordings during the birth hospitalization and i...

A 62-year-old woman smoker presented with 1 week of common cold and worsening hoarseness. She presented with dyspnea, which had been worsening over the past few days. On the initial examination in theemergency room, she couldnot liedown, stridor was evident and fiberoptic laryngoscopy revealed large laryngeal mass causing airway obstruction. Large laryngeal mass disappeared in subglottis with i...

Laryngeal cancer is approximately the twentieth most common cancer in the world with more than 150,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Laryngeal cancer, a prognostic serious disease associated with high mortality, is one of the most debilitating forms of cancer. Despite advances in therapy and novel surgical and non-surgical approaches, early diagnosis remains the best predictor of survival. Alth...

Karaoke singing is a very popular entertainment among young people in Asia. It is a leisure singing activity with the singer's voice amplified with special acoustic effects in the backdrop of music. Music video and song captions are shown on television screen to remind the singers during singing. It is not uncommon to find participants singing continuously for four to five hours each time. As m...

The influence of intensive acute hypoxia on the frequency-amplitude formant vocal O characteristics was investigated in this study. Examinees were exposed to the simulated altitudes of 5,500 m and 6,700 m in climabaro chamber and resolved Lotig's test in the conditions of normoxia, i.e. pronounced the three-digit numbers beginning from 900, but in reversed order. Frequency and intensity values ...

In cochlear implants (CIs), acoustic speech cues, especially for pitch, are delivered in a degraded form. This study's aim is to assess whether due to degraded pitch cues, normal-hearing listeners and CI users employ different perceptual strategies to recognize vocal emotions, and, if so, how these differ. Voice actors were recorded pronouncing a nonce word in four different emotions: anger, sa...

Ninety-three 1%year-olds were tested with measures thought to tap information processing, sustained attention, executive function, and intelligence. The visual fixation patterns and home rearing conditions of these adolescents, born preterm, had been observed in early infancy. Infant fixation durations were negatively associated with information processing, executive function, and intelligence ...