Usual and Unusual Causes of Laryngeal Arthritis

Hydralazine-induced lupus and vocal fold paralysis

“…Scarpelli et al (1959) Montgomery and Lofgren (1963) Gilliam and Cheatum (1973) Toomey et al (1974) Smith and Ferguson(1976)Sinclair et al (1976) Smith et al (1977) Smith et al (1978) Schwartz and Grishman (1980) Shalit et al (1982) Weiser et al (1984) Burgess and Render (1984) Korbet et al (1984) Asherson and Hughes (1985) Curley et al (1986) Aszkenasy et al (1987) Maxwell and Silver (1987) Petri et al (1988) Sharma et al (1988) Saluja et al (1989) Gordon and Dunn (1990) Espana et al (1990) Kraus and Guerra-Bautista (1990) Teitel et al (1992) Raz et al (1992) Munianin et al (1992) Woo et al (1995)Tsunoda and Soda (1996) …”

Vocal nodules in Sjögren's syndrome

“…: Discussion In an investigation of 62 cases with Sjogren's syndrome, Bloch et al (1965) found 20 patients with persistent hoarseness, and since Sjogren's syndrome is the most frequent collagenosis next to rheumatoid arthritis, hoarseness must be present rather frequently. j Hoarseness may be caused by arthritis in the cricoarytenoid joint (Montgomery and Lofgren, 1963;Gresham and Kellaway, 1958), laryngitis (Scarpelli et al, 1959;Baker and Bywaters, 1957), granulomatous \ nodules (Chatelanat and Rauch, 1959;Sinclair et al, 1976;Webb and Payne, 1972;Friedman and Rice, 1975), non-granulomatous nodules (Luchsinger and Arnold, 1965), or recurrent nerve paralysis (Wolman et al, 1965).…”

Crico-arytenoid joint involvement in acute systemic lupus erythematosus

“…Laryngeal involvement is rare in SLE, but this potentially fatal complication has been reported in chronic disease (Smith and Ferguson, 1976;Smith and Ward, 1977), and in active disease (Montgomery and Lofgren, 1963;Toomey et ah, 1974).…”