Clinical Management of Voice Disorders 4th Edition
Clinical Management of Voice Disorders — Fourth Edition
Clinical Management of Voice Disorders-Fourth Edition is a comprehensive text on the evaluation and treatment of the most commonly observed voice disorders in clinical and school settings. Over 240 new references since 1998 have been added to this edition, with many of them in the years 1999 and 2000. It is designed to be used as a graduate text as well as a clinical guide for the working professional. Chapters cover basic anatomy and physiology of phonation and phonation theory; medical aspects of voice management, evaluation procedures including the instrumentation of spectrography, endoscopy and stroboscopy, electroglottography, and the noninstrumental procedures of case-history considerations and perceptual judgment of voice parameters.
Chapter 4 describes the nature of vocal abuse, the pathogenesis of vocal nodules and contact ulcers and therapeutic strategies. Chapter 5 covers information on neurogenic disorders of phonation including paralysis, adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia, and the common dysarthrias with major dysphonia involvement such as Parkinson’s Disease and ALS. Chapter 6 describes the evaluation and treatment of psychogenic voice disorders with a large section on the evaluation and treatment of voice and communication concerns in gender dysphonia. Often, the inclusion of information on cancer and laryngectomy treatment is excluded from general voice texts, but Chapter 7 provides full coverage of this clinical population, including TEP management. Chapter 7 also includes information on recent developments in laryngeal transplantation. Finally, Chapter 8 is a potpourri of miscellaneous disorders including those of resonation due to faulty velopharyngeal insufficiency.