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The complementary relationship among these various physical, voice use, and psychological influences ensures that many voice disorders and laryngeal pathologies will have contributions from more than one etiologic factor and that there may be considerable overlap among these three groupings.1-3 For example, inappropriate vocal behaviors or excessive vocal demands may incite structural changes in the vocal fold
The prevalence of voice disorders is dif- ficult to establish because figures vary with age, gender, and occupation, but estimates range from 3% to 10% in the general population.3 Thirty years ago, a study of 428 otolaryngology patients, aged 18 to 82 years, found that 7.2% of the males and 5% of the females had some form of laryngeal pathology.4 Ten years later, 1158 new patient records from the same otolaryngology practice were reviewed to replicate those find- ings.5 The most frequent voice patholo- gies for those treatment-seeking patients were benign vocal fold lesions (such as nodules, granuloma, and edema) and functional voice disorders (including
Most Common Laryngeal Pathologies in Adults
To organize the broad and ever-increas- ing range of laryngeal pathologies and voice disorders, Special Interest Divi- sion 3 (Voice and Voice Disorders) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association published a collaborative work in 2006 to promote a consistent framework and common terminology for classifying pathologies and condi- tions that affect voice.
Only physicians may make medical diagnoses of laryngeal pathology.
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