Pathophysiology and Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis Denervation and Reinnervation /

• Main Author: Yumoto, Eiji (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosurgery.; Otolaryngologic surgery.; Surgery.; Speech pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Head and Neck Surgery.; Speech Pathology.

All laryngologists, especially general ENT doctors for patients with paralytic dysphonia, as well as speech pathologists, will benefit from this book’s coverage of basic and clinical aspects of reinnervation in retrieving patients’ normal voices. Phonosurgical treatment for paralytic dysphonia was e...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.- Acknowledgement
• Foreword.- Basic Knowledge of Vocal Fold Paralysis
• Etiologies of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Conventional Surgical Procedures Used to Treat Paralytic Dysphonia
• Denervation and Reinnervation of the Thyroarytenoid Muscle
• Diagnosis of Paralytic Dysphonia and its Clinical Characteristics
• Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis; Reinnervation of the Thyroarytenoid Muscle.- Summary and Future Perspectives.