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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2017.9.4.099

Ten years of clinical experience with the patients with vocal nodule  

Lim, Hye Jin (대구가톨릭대학교 의과대학 이비인후과 음성언어치료실)
Kim, Jeong Kyu (대구가톨릭대학교 의과대학 이비인후과)
Choi, Chul-Hee (대구가톨릭대학교 언어청각치료학과)
Choi, Seong Hee (대구가톨릭대학교)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.9, no.4, 2017 , pp. 99-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
Clinical data about vocal nodules have seldom been reported, even though vocal nodules are commonly diagnosed in outpatient speech and voice clinic. This study aims to investigate clinical characteristics of the patients who are diagnosed with vocal nodules. This study analyzed the data for 10 years from the 319 patients diagnosed with vocal nodules (45 males and 274 females with the mean age of 39.4 ranging from 2 to 83) in terms of gender, age, occupation, voice change initiation pattern, change with time, throat clearing, smoking history, type of voice abuse, acoustic analysis, maximum phonation time, GRBAS, and VHI. Thirteen patients (4.08%) had unilateral vocal nodule and 306 patients (95.9%) had bilateral vocal nodule, the majority of which had a pattern of asymmetry (73.9%). The glottal closure pattern was hourglass in 72.1% of patients, posterior chink in 17.9% of patients, and irregular in 7.9% of patients. The most common occupational category was professional voice users (43.4%). The voice abuse pattern included excessive talking in 96 patients (76.8%), loud voice in 78 (62.4%) patients, and excessive singing in 17 patients (21.6%). The patients showed worse scores in G, B, and S than in R and A for the GRBAS evaluation. The most recommended treatment for vocal nodules was voice therapy. The current clinical data will be helpful for treatment planning for the patients of vocal nodule.
Keywords
vocal nodules; voice analysis;
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