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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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