Laryngeal pathology in hearing-impaired children.
Eighty-five children enrolled in a total communication elementary school for the severe-to-profoundly hearing-impaired were evaluated prospectively to assess the incidence of laryngeal abnormalities. Direct flexible laryngoscopy and indirect mirror laryngoscopy revealed vocal cord nodules in 3 children, omega-shape infantile epiglottis in 3 children, and normal larynges in the remaining 79 children. These findings suggest that severe-to-profoundly hearing-impaired children develop detectable laryngeal pathology at approximately the same frequency as previously reported by others for normal hearing children.
Derkay
C S
CS
Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23507.
Thomsen
J R
JR
Grundfast
K M
KM
D000293:Adolescent; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D007828:Laryngoscopy; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D014833:Voice Quality