Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2021
Abstract
Voice disorders in elderly are relatively common, patients suffer from dysphonia due to physiologic aging or disease processes associated with aging, including serious neurological disease. Therefore, any changes in the voice should be taken into consideration and laryngologically examined.
The aim of this article is to present a dysphonic patient with incomplete vocal cord paralysis, subsequent neurological examination showed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.