OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS This study intends to objectively quantify and compare the regression rates of vocal lesions in patients receiving either vocal fold steroid injection (VFSI) or vocal hygiene education (VHE). Potential influence of occupational vocal demands on the treatment outcome was also investigated. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS This study enrolled 176 patients ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Digital kymography (DKG) can provide objective quantitative data about vocal fold vibration, which may help distinguish normal from pathological vocal folds as well as nodules from polyps. STUDY DESIGN Case-control study. METHODS There were 87 subjects who were separated into three groups: control, nodules, and unilateral polyps, and examined using a high-speed camera ...

OBJECTIVE Conventional surgical techniques of laryngomicrosurgery (LMS) on hemorrhagic vocal polyps are often difficult due to obscuration of the surgical field by inadvertent bleeding from the lesion, and there are often significant amounts of mucosal epithelium loss. Here, we introduce our surgical technique using pulsed dye laser (PDL), which can effectively resect the polyp with vocal fold ...

Vocal cord papillomas are rare growths of viral etiology caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Large polyps known to obstruct glottic opening and can cause acute airway obstruction. We report a case 4-year-old male child with progressive hoarseness voice stridor posted for excision vocal papillomas. Paediatric age the patient position growth obstructing at cords provided an extremely challengin...

OBJECTIVE We aim to examine the abilities of objective acoustic analysis methods (nonlinear dynamic and traditional perturbation measures) to describe voices from individuals with vocal nodules and polyps. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sustained vowel recordings from normal subjects, patients with vocal nodules, and patients with vocal polyps were analyzed. Perturbation measures of jitter and shimmer ...