This treatise on hoarseness is intended for primary care physicians and mid-level providers. It is produced by the Center for the Care of the Professional Voice, part of the Haben Practice for Voice & Laryngeal Laser Surgery, PLLC, specializing in voice disorders and laryngology in Rochester, NY. It provides a comprehensive listing of common voice disorders, key elements of the patient’s histor...

Numerous conditions can cause hoarseness, ranging from simple inflammatory processes to more serious systemic, neurologic, or cancerous conditions involving the larynx. Evaluation of a patient with hoarseness includes a careful history, physical examination, and in many cases, laryngoscopy. Any patient with hoarseness lasting longer than two weeks in the absence of an apparent benign cause requ...

Formerly, we had reported that rating hypernasality of speech in cleft palate patients is affected by the presence of hoarseness, especially “rough hoarseness”. In the present study, we further investigated the effects of “breathy hoarseness”, something frequently observed in cleft palate children, on the rating of hypernasality. We also controlled the degree of breathiness by adding harmonic c...

tuberculosis is a major health problem in iran and its laryngeal involvement is not uncommon. laryngeal tuberculosis is so infectious and delay in diagnosis and treatment could result spread of disease and causes divesting complications. we reviewed clinical and para-clinical characteristics of patients with laryngeal tuberculosis in iran. in a cross sectional study, patients with laryngeal tub...

herein, a 28-year-old man with hoarseness, skin and oral lesions is presented. at the time of admission, the patient had an erythematous plaque on his chin near his lower lip and an erythematous-violaceous plaque on his palate near the open-ing of the pharynx and 20 kg weight lost in last one year. the biopsy of his skin lesions by hematoxylin and eosin staining revealed an infiltration of the ...