Eventually, years of speaking can cause
vocal cords to become damaged or stiff and thus vibrate less robustly and less regularly," says Dr.
Dysphonia is defined as voice disorders like speech impairment or difficulty (hoarseness weakness or even loss of voice) often due to a physical disorder of the
vocal cord.
All the patients presenting with hoarseness of voice in ENT outpatient department CMH Quetta and Rawalpindi undergoing indirect laryngoscopy and the patients with
vocal cord paralysis were selected.
Shakira said: "Though I very much hoped my
vocal cords would recover in time to pick the tour back up in January, and after exploring many options to that effect, I have accepted that this is an injury that simply needs more time and care to heal.
Another common cause of hoarseness is overuse of the
vocal cords due to singing, shouting or talking for long.
Upon ear, nose, and throat evaluation with direct laryngoscopy, the
vocal cords were found in the paramedian position with limited movements suggesting bilateral abductor
vocal cord palsy.
Adele has officially canceled her two final shows after damaging her
vocal cords.
Singer Adele has cancelled the last two sell-out shows of her world tour due to take place at London's Wembley Stadium this weekend after damaging her
vocal cords.
Bilateral
vocal cord paralysis usually occurs as an effect of operations and reoperations of malignant thyroid gland tumors, because of the close anatomical connection [5, 6].
Severe microscopic polyangiitis with unilateral
vocal cord paralysis as initial manifestation
The commonly encountered benign lesions of the larynx are
vocal cord polyps, vocal nodules, tuberculosis of larynx, laryngocele, laryngeal web, epiglottic cysts, and subglottic hemangioma.
The posterior commissure of
vocal cord, which lies in the interarytenoid region.
