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Etiologies of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Conventional Surgical Procedures Used to Treat Paralytic Dysphonia

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Pathophysiology and Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis

Abstract

Modern imaging techniques including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography have advanced greatly over the last three decades, allowing the causes of vocal fold paralysis (VFP) to be established and improving the surgical treatment of patients with previously inoperable life-threatening diseases. However, VFP sometimes persists or even appears as a complication following surgery, resulting in breathy dysphonia and/or swallowing difficulties that affect postoperative quality of life (QOL) [1–4]. Thus, phonosurgical treatment of patients with paralytic dysphonia is important to improve QOL after treatment of the primary disease. In this chapter, the author reviews his experience in terms of the etiologies of VFP, the optimal surgical treatments for breathy dysphonia, and the vocal outcomes after surgery.

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Yumoto, E. (2015). Etiologies of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Conventional Surgical Procedures Used to Treat Paralytic Dysphonia. In: Pathophysiology and Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55354-0_2

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  • Online ISBN: 978-4-431-55354-0

  • eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)

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