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Voice disorders in rheumatoid arthritis
Stimmstörungen bei rheumatoider Arthritis
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Published: | September 15, 2005 |
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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.