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Functional voice disorders

A review of 109 patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

M. W. M. Bridger  and
Ruth Epstein
M. W. M. Bridger*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Otolaryngology and Speech Therapy, The Middlesex Hospital, London
Ruth Epstein
Affiliation:
From the Department of Otolaryngology and Speech Therapy, The Middlesex Hospital, London
*
Mr. M. Bridger, F.R.C.S., Department of ENT, The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1.
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Abstract

The records of 109 patients, presenting with functional voice disorder during the years 1977–1981, have been reviewed. The mean age was 45 years and the F: M ratio is 2: 1. Excess voice use was not obviously an aetiological factor. Sixty-one of the 109 patients (56 per cent) were cured by speech therapy, in that their voices returned to their pre-morbid state, and a further 28 (26 per cent) were improved by therapy; seven patients (6 per cent) did not improve and 13 (12 per cent) were lost to follow-up. Of the patients that were ‘cured’, 54 per cent were discharged after three months' treatment and 72 per cent after six months' treatment. Eight per cent required treatment for more than a year.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 97 , Issue 12 , December 1983 , pp. 1145 - 1148
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1983

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