Prolonged diffuse laryngeal inflammation from smoking and/or reflux is commonly diagnosed as chronic laryngitis and treated empirically with expensive drugs that have not proven effective. Shifts in microbiota have been associated with many inflammatory diseases, though little is known about how resident microbes may contribute to chronic laryngitis. We sought to characterize the core microbiot...

 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 Pr...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To describe the demographics, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of laryngeal cryptococcosis. Antifungal therapy guidelines are provided and the use of laser ablation is discussed. DATA SOURCES PubMed, OVID MEDLINE, and Embase databases and one patient who presented to our institution's otolaryngology department. REVIEW METHODS A review of the ...

on laryngeal diseases, an approach towards approximate accuracy. Eppinger (Pathologische Anatomie des Larynx und der Trachea, p. 205) quite correctly mentions the three examples which had been observed up to the year 1880,?to wit, those of Wagner, Tobold, and Brans. With regard to Wagner's case, he gives the reference as Archiv fur Prakt. Heilkunde, 1872, p. 108, and states, in a somewhat aggri...

A case of non-recurrent laryngeal nerve is reported. The non-recurrent laryngeal nerve was found on the right side and was not associated with any vascular abnormalities. The anatomy and surgical implication of this rare condition is discussed

introduction: laryngeal dysfunction may be divided into three categories; organic, neurologic and functional disorders. dysphonia and hoarseness are the most common symptoms and, in some cases, the only signs of laryngeal dysfunction. in differential diagnosis of any type of chronic hoarseness, a neoplastic process must be considered and, thus continuous light video laryngoscopy can provide imp...

Unfortunately, the treatment of numerous otolaryngological diseases often lacks of evidence base because appropriate studies are missing. Whereas sufficient high-quality trials exist for the specific immunotherapy of allergic rhinitis and in a limited measure also for the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor induced angioedema, the evidence for Menière's disease or for pharmacotherapy of pos...

With the present development of digital registration and methods for processing speech it is possible to make effective objective acoustic diagnostics for medical purposes. These methods are useful as all pathologies and diseases of the human vocal tract influence the quality of a patient's speech signal. Diagnostics of the voice organ can be defined as an unambiguous recognition of the current...