Acoustic analysis of voice in children with noduli vocales

Pediatric vocal nodules: Correlation with perceptual voice analysis

“…Although some patients exhibited muscular tension, the severity of muscular tension does not correlate with nodule size. Some believe that the size of the nodule does not correlate with the quality of the voice [6,7]. Our study was able to correlate perceptual analysis characteristics with nodule size as we have a large sample size, potentially enabling detection of trends that may have gone unnoticed in smaller series [6,7].…”

“…This would be expected to be a more important effect in males than females, due to differential growth of the larynx with puberty. The effect of puberty and hormonal changes cannot be disregarded as we reported 87% of teenagers with nodules are female [6,7]. Teenagers voice use patterns (teenage girls on the phone with friends, etc.)…”

“…Existing studies of vocal nodules are limited with regards to their sample size and methodology [5][6][7][8].…”

Tempo máximo de fonação de crianças pré-escolares

“…12,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] In this study, the normalcy criteria were a mean grade not over 0.9 in at least four of five RASAT parameters, or a mean grade not over 1 in one of five RASAT parameters. 12 This evaluation was extremely important, as its results defined voices as normal or altered, and thus, whether any subject was included or not.…”

Assessment of chronic childhood dysphonia

“…The present article describes the epidemiology of chronic childhood voice disorder and the diagnostic approach, which must be multidisciplinary [6][7][8][9].…”