Exam 3 Part 5

Question 1

Voice disorder characterized by a clogging of the lymphatic system where the fluid accumulates in the vocal fold. Enclosed sack-like structure

Answer 1

Vocal fold cyst

Question 2

How are vocal fold cysts treated?

Answer 2

Surgery

Question 3

Where are vocal fold cysts located?

Answer 3

Top of the vocal fold

Question 4

Larynx looks fine but the function of it is messed up

Answer 4

Functional dysphonia

Question 5

Too much energy used on the larynx to produce voice

Answer 5

Muscle tension dysphonia

Question 6

Person who has no voice, larynx looks normal, misconnection between psychological and something in the larynx

Answer 6

Functional aphonia

Question 7

What is the etiology of functional aphonia?

Answer 7

Psychological trauma or stress

Question 8

Boys who have been through puberty, but has a really high pitch voice because the larynx has not widened and dropped

Answer 8

Mutational falsetto

Question 9

Viral herpes onset infection that causes a rampant viral growth on the vocal fold or subglottically; wart-like

Answer 9

Papilloma (papillomatosis)

Question 10

What quality of voice do people with papillomas have?

Answer 10

Hoarse

Question 11

True or false: Papillomas are left alone because removal could cause the papillomas to come back rampantly

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Is there a cure for vocal fold papillomas?

Answer 12

No

Question 13

What is the location of laryngeal cancer?

Answer 13

Anywhere in the larynx (on vocal cords, hanging off the vocal cord

Question 14

What does laryngeal cancer look like?

Answer 14

Cauliflower and discolored

Question 15

Cancer can be only diagnosed by ______

Answer 15

Biopsy