Diagnosis and Treatment of Organic Voice Disorders

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ORGANIC voice disorders are common, and their management is usually simple. Most people have experienced hoarseness with an upper-respiratory infection and know that treatment requires only time and the common-sense avoidance of vocal excess and other irritants such as smoking. The patient with a voice disorder who seeks the physician's help is therefore unusual. The nature of the organic disease, the resulting disabilities, and the patient's concerns about them are the factors that are important in making a diagnosis and formulating treatment.Any disease that affects the vocal instrument in any of its parts (the lungs and thorax, the vocal . . .

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