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Description of patients consulting the voice clinic regarding gender, age, occupational status, and diagnosis
Remacle, Angélique; Petitfils, Cloé; FINCK, Camille et al.
2017In European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 274 (3), p. 1567-1576
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Keywords :
voice disorders; dysphonia; voice pathology; laryngeal pathology; prevalence; epidemiology
Abstract :
[en] Purpose. To describe the gender, age, occupational status and diagnosis of dysphonic patients. Method. We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 1079 patients examined at the Voice clinic of the University hospital of Liège in French-speaking Belgium. Results. Overall, seven out of 10 patients who attended the voice clinic for dysphonia were females. The patients’ ages ranged from 4 to 93 (mean=43.5). Females predominantly consulted at the age of 54 and males at the age of 9. Regarding the occupational status, workers represented more than half of our patients (53%), while 11.2% were unemployed, 15.4% were students, and 19.9% were retired. Regarding the diagnoses of the 1079 patients, nodules were the most common pathologies (n=182, 16.9% of the patients), prevailing in females (n=142, 18.8% of the females), encountered in 16.8% of the workers and 42.8% of the students consulting the voice clinic. Following nodules, laryngeal mobility disorders were diagnosed in 16.4% of the patients (n=177), mainly females (n=115), and was the most frequent diagnosis in retirees (n=75, 34.9%). Conclusions. The majority of the patients consulting the voice clinic for dysphonia were adult females, in their workforce, diagnosed with vocal nodules. The identification of the patients’ characteristics and diagnoses is important to develop treatments and prevention of dysphonia, estimate their costs, and allow comparisons across referral centers.
Disciplines :
Otolaryngology
Author, co-author :
Remacle, Angélique  ;  Université de Liège > Département de Logopédie > Logopédie des troubles de la voix
Petitfils, Cloé
FINCK, Camille ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Service d'ORL, d'audiophonologie et de chir. cervico-faciale
Morsomme, Dominique  ;  Université de Liège > Département de Logopédie > Logopédie des troubles de la voix
Language :
English
Title :
Description of patients consulting the voice clinic regarding gender, age, occupational status, and diagnosis
Publication date :
February 2017
Journal title :
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
ISSN :
0937-4477
eISSN :
1434-4726
Publisher :
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Volume :
274
Issue :
3
Pages :
1567-1576
Peer reviewed :
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