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100 Jahre Phoniatrie in Deutschland
22. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie
24. Kongress der Union Europäischer Phoniater

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie e. V.

16. bis 18.09.2005, Berlin

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Voice disorders in rheumatoid arthritis

Stimmstörungen bei rheumatoider Arthritis

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  • corresponding author presenting/speaker Waldemar Wojnowski - Chair and Department of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Karol Marcinkowski University School of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland
  • Michal Karlik - Chair and Department of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Karol Marcinkowski University School of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland
  • Bozena Wiskirska-Woznica - Chair and Department of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Karol Marcinkowski University School of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland
  • Marta Walczak - Chair and Department of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Karol Marcinkowski University School of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland

100 Jahre Phoniatrie in Deutschland. 22. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie, 24. Kongress der Union der Europäischen Phoniater. Berlin, 16.-18.09.2005. Düsseldorf, Köln: German Medical Science; 2005. Doc05dgppV37

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Published: September 15, 2005

© 2005 Wojnowski et al.
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Abstract

The report presents patients with coincidence of voice disorders and rheumatoid arthritis.

Material consisted of 3 females aged 39, 48 and 74 years.

Methods included phoniatric examination, videolaryngoscopy, stroboscopy and acoustic voice analysis (MDVP).

Results: In two youngest patients the laryngoscopic changes were located on vocal folds, mostly as a yellow nodules. The appropriate mobility of both vocal folds was found. The MDVP analysis revealed particularly changes in parameters describing perturbation of amplitude in two cases. In the third case oedema in the region of the crico-arytenoid joints and vestibular folds were observed. MDVP analysis showed slight disturbances in the parameters describing frequency perturbation.

Keywords: voice disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, larynx