I subdivide causes of hoarseness into two primary categories. I think of these broad categories in terms of what causes the vocal cord dysfunction and so I call them Behavioral Hoarseness and Structural...
Structural injury
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Laryngeal tuberculosis in an ethnic Asian who developed a cough when he returned to his home country for a symposium.... |
Supraglottitis in a man in his mid-30s. His epiglottis is swollen and so are the arytenoids. However, his vocal cords... |
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Many years ago he was diagnosed with coccidiomycosis in central California and treated. He then came to my office with... |
Extensive laryngeal papilloma
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Extensive laryngeal papilloma with multiple colonies, in multiple locations on both true and false vocal cords and the...
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She had 8 surgeries for laryngeal papilloma over 24 years. Then for the past 3 years, her ENT kept telling her she had... |
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