Voice assessment on patients with Reinke's edema of vocal fold by application of micro-suture techniques / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE@#To evaluate the vocal quality of patients with Reinke's edema before and after the endolaryngeal phonosurgery combined with micro-suture techniques.@*METHOD@#Twenty male patients with bilateral Reinke's edema were submitted to surgery. All patients received the endolaryngeal phonosurgery combined with micro-suture techniques on vocal fold and completed voice evaluation preoperative and postoperative 2 weeks, 3 months and 6 months. Acoustic voice parameters were compared with the control group without voice pathology.@*RESULT@#The result showed that at postoperative 2 weeks, compared with the preoperative evaluation the patients' subjective sound quality improved obviously. Acoustic voice parameters improved significantly (P0.05). At postoperative 6 months, voice quality still remain stable, all of the analyzed parameters had no obvious difference.@*CONCLUSION@#The phonosurgery combined with micro-suture techniques treat on the Reinke's edema, vocal cord postoperative recovery time is short, the sound quality receive basic recovery after 3 months.