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

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• 作者：Angélique Remacle ; Cloé Petitfils…
• 关键词：Voice disorders ; Dysphonia ; Voice pathology ; Laryngeal pathology ; Prevalence ; Epidemiology
• 刊名：European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：274
• 期：3
• 页码：1567-1576
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Otorhinolaryngology; Neurosurgery; Head and Neck Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1434-4726
• 卷排序：274

文摘

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.