Pediatric voice disorders at Hospital Dona Estefânica: Casuistic before and after distal chip videolaryngoscopy

• Autor(a) principal: Mariano, Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Soares da Cunha, Inês, Eliseu, Aníbal, Sousa, Herédio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34631/sporl.1054
• topic: Disfonia; Doenças da voz; Laringoscópios; Estroboscopia; Pediatria; Dysphonia; Voice Disorders; Laryngoscopes; Stroboscopy; Pediatrics

Objective: To describe the casuistic of the Voice Unit at Hospital Dona Estefânia and compare the diagnoses obtained with flexible fiberoptic videolaryngoscopy and distal chip flexible videolaryngoscopy. Study design: Retrospective observational study. Material and Methods: Review of clinical records from patients first evaluated from September 2018 to December 2021. Results: Videolaryngoscopy was obtained in 78.1% of the 73 studied children. The following diagnoses were made: vocal fold nodules (42.5%),laryngopharyngeal reflux (12.3%), muscle tension dysphonia (9.6%), corditis (2.7%), vocal fold cyst (2.7%) and vocal fold polyp (1.4%). There was nostatistically significant difference in the diagnoses made using distal chip videolaryngoscopy, but we noticed a decrease in the proportion of vocal fold nodules and normal laryngoscopies and an increase in the proportion of laryngopharyngeal reflux (p = 0.479). Conclusion: Distal chip videolaryngoscopy did not change the diagnoses made in children with chronic dysphonia.