Cuidados vocais: questão de prevenção e saúde
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2010-09
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Planned by Brazilian doctors, the National
Week of the Voice (Semana Nacional da
Voz) conquered the world due to the huge reached
success. This study has the objective to demonstrate
the results reached during the 9th National
Week of the Voice (9ª Semana Nacional da Voz)
that took place in the Hospital das Clínicas of the
Federal University of Goiás. During the event,
125 patients had been selected by the phonoaudiology
team and manually filled a questionnaire
elaborated for the campaign in the validity of
possible pharyngolaryngeal alterations. The patients
had been examined by the otorhinolaryngologist
using indirect laryngoscopy and, when
necessary, submitted to videolaryngoscopy. After
medical evaluation, it was observed that 52 people
(41,6%) had presented alterations in the speech
organs or in proximal regions, in one patient paralysis
of left vocal fold was detected and one patient
presented tumoral injury. Considering all
the patients attended, only one presented malignant
neoplasm (squamous cell carcinoma), confirmed
later by biopsy.
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Doenças laríngeas, Rouquidão, Voz, Neoplasia, Prevenção, Laryngeal illnesses, Voice, Huskiness, Neoplasm, Prevention
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GUIMARÃES, Valeriana de Castro; VIANA, Maria Aparecida do Divino Espírito; BARBOSA, Maria Alves; PAIVA, Maria Luiza de Faria; TAVARES, João Antonio Gomes; CAMARGO, Leandro Azevedo de. Cuidados vocais: questão de prevenção e saúde. Ciência e Saúde Coletiva, Rio de Janeiro, v. 15, n. 6, p. 2799-2803, set. 2010.