Voice Disorders

Hoag Voice and Swallowing Center provides specialized care for voice disorders. We offer services for a diverse population of patients. Common disorders include:
  • Voice disorders in professional voice users including singers, actors, lawyers, teachers, and clergy
  • Benign growths of the vocal cords including nodules, polyps, and cysts
  • Infectious and inflammatory diseases of the vocal cords including acute and chronic laryngitis, granuloma, papilloma, and acid reflux affecting the larynx
  • Neurologic disorders of the larynx, including spasmodic dysphonia, laryngeal tremor, stroke, vocal cord paralysis and paresis, and Parkinson’s disease.
  • Narrowing of the airway between the vocal cords (glottic stenosis), below the vocal cords (subglottic stenosis), or of the windpipe (tracheal stenosis).
  • Functional disorders of the voice including disorders including muscle tension dysphonia and psychogenic voice disorders.
  • Cancer and precancerous conditions of the vocal cord and larynx, pharynx, throat
  • Voice disorders resulting from prior radiation treatment of the neck and larynx
  • Aging of the voice
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