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Erschienen in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 3/2017

06.10.2016 | Laryngology

Description of patients consulting the voice clinic regarding gender, age, occupational status, and diagnosis

verfasst von: Angélique Remacle, Cloé Petitfils, Camille Finck, Dominique Morsomme

Erschienen in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology | Ausgabe 3/2017

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to describe the gender, age, occupational status, and diagnosis of dysphonic patients. We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 1079 patients examined at the Voice clinic of the University hospital of Liège in French-speaking Belgium. Overall, seven out of ten 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), and 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 %). 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.
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Metadaten
Titel
Description of patients consulting the voice clinic regarding gender, age, occupational status, and diagnosis
verfasst von
Angélique Remacle
Cloé Petitfils
Camille Finck
Dominique Morsomme
Publikationsdatum
06.10.2016
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0937-4477
Elektronische ISSN: 1434-4726
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-016-4332-7

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