Abstract
From 1976 to 1985, many professional singers visited our clinic and were phonosurgically and conservatively treated. A follow-up study with statistical and histopathological methods was carried out on 212 cases with complete clinical data, selected from all the cases.
The results obtained were as follows:
(1) The vocal polyp was more prevalent in male than in female.
(2) The vocal nodules were prevalent in female singers.
(3) Professional singers had a tendency to suffer from vocal nodules more than average people.
(4) The histopathological study revealed that an edematous change in the submucosa was most dominant among many kinds of histological changes in female patients who are tend to suffer from vocal nodules, while hemorrhagic and infectious changes were found in addition to edematous ones in male patients who are tend to suffer from vocal polyps.
(5) In 97% of the patients who were laryngomicrosurgically treated, normal restoration of the voice was obtained.
From the results above mentioned, it would be emphasized that surgical resection of lesions under laryngomicroscopy could be carried out even for professional singers.
