Post traumatic changes in children’s larynx and voice
Journal Title: Polski Przegląd Otorynolaryngologiczny - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
The larynx trauma – this is about 7% of all cases of post traumatic changes in human body. The most useful classifiation from clinical point of view is external and internal traumas. In children even due to relative resistance of larynx on external trauma, they are not rare. Material of our paper consists children of age 12, 11 and 16 after various laryngeal trauma. Respectively there were traumatic changes after multiple bronchoscopy and lungs cysts operation, laryngeal malformation after dog bits in neck region and larynx trauma in car accident. In all cases the fist symptom was dyspnea and then dysphonia. The purpose of the paper was to introduce the results of voice rehabilitation in specifi post traumatic structural malformations of larynx. The voice estimation based on perceptual and objective acoustic analyses in comparison on glottis morphology. There was found that the voice quality not always depends on extension and degree of larynx damage.
Authors and Affiliations
Waldemar Wojnowski, Bożena Wiskirska-Woźnica, Andrzej Obrębowski, Hanna Czerniejewska
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