CLINICAL STUDY ON ETIOPATHOGENESIS AND MANAGEMENT OF HOARSENESS OF VOICE

Abstract

The human voice is  an  extraordinary  attainment, which is capable of conveying not only complex  thoughts  but also subtle emotions. Production of voice in complex mechanism. The vocal folds produce tone that becomes modified by pharynx, palate, tongue, nose and lips to  generate the individual sounds of speech.

Hoarseness of voice is one of  the  commonest  important symptom in otolaryngological practice invariably the earliest manifestation of large number of conditions directly or indirectly affecting the voice apparatus. It is however strange that hoarseness as a subject has not attracted the attention of many workers.