Glottic Characteristics and Voice Complaint in the Elderly

摘要: Summary This study evaluated the relationship between voice complaint and deviant vocal fold status with special regard to presbylarynx, in patients aged more than 60 years, pharyngeal-laryngeal complaint. The material consisted of clinical histories images obtained by laryngoscopies from protocols Larynx Institute—INLAR, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 210 patients, 88 men 122 women, who had sought otorhinolaryngologic treatment. Indicative glottic characteristics such as bowing, prominence processes, spindle-shaped chink, were analyzed. increase mass, leukoplakia, other alterations, distinct these two, grouped miscellaneous, well presence or absence also Vocal chink showed a strong correlation among each other. presbylarynx was accompanied less mucosa which turn are common where an exists.