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CAUSES : 1. INFLAMMATORY A. ACUTE - ACUTE LARYNGITIS FOLLOWING URTI - HERPETIC LARYNGITIS - ACURE EPIGLOTTITIS B. CHRONIC * NON SPECIFIC - VOCAL ABUSE - TOBACCO & ALCOHOL - PACHYDERMIA - POLYPOID DEGENERATION ( REINKE OEDEMA ) - VOCAL NODULES ( SINGER NODES ) * SPECIFIC - TUBERCULOSIS - LUPUS VULGARIS - SYPHILIS - LEPROSY - SCLEROMA - MYCOSES - SARCOID - WEGENER GRANULOMA 2. TUMOURS A. BENIGN - VOCAL POLYP - RETENSION CYSTS - SINGLE PAPILLOMA - FIBROMA, HAEMANGIOMA & NEUROFIBROMA B. NEOPLASTIC - LEUCOPLAKIA - CARCINOMA OF THE LARYNX - GROWTHS OF THE LARYNGO-PHARYNX 3. TRAUMATIC - FOREIGN BODIES - INTUBATION DAMAGE - BURNS - CHEMICALS FROM INHALATION - EXTERNAL INJURY WITH OEDEMA & HAEMATOMA 4. NEUROLOGICAL - RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY DUE TO * SURGICAL INJURY * PERIPHERAL NEURITIS IN DIPHTHERIA , VIRAL , CHEMICAL. LEAD , VIT B DEFICIENCY LIKE BERI-BERI * IDIOPATHIC * CARCINOMA OF THYROID OR UPPER OESOPHAGUS * CARCINOMA OF LUNG * ANEURYSM OF SUBCLAVIAN OR AORTA * CARDIAC ENLARGEMENT - VAGUS NERVE PALSY DUE TO * TUMORS OF THE BASE OF SKULL LIKE GLOMUS JUGULARE TUMOURS & NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA - PERIPHERAL NEURITIS DUE TO INFLUENZA, HERPES OR EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS - HIGH NECK INJURIES * POLIOMYELITIS * ASENDING POLYNEURITIS * VASCULAR ACCIDENTS IN BRAIN STEM * ANEURYSM OF CAROTID ARTRY * MALIGNANT DISEASE OF NASOPHARYNX * SYPHILIS * METASTATIC NODE INVOLVEMENT * BASAL MENINGITIS * VAGAL TUMORS LIKE GLOMUS VAGALE OR NEURILEMOMA 5. VARIOUS - ALLERGIC EDEMA - RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS OF CRICO-ARYTENOID JOINTS - MYXOEDEMA - MYASTHENIA GRAVIS - FUNCTIONAL APHONIA OTHER TESTS : * ENT CHECK UP * EDREPHONIUM TEST
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DISEASE
INVESTIGATION
ABSOLUTE EOSINOPHIL COUNT, VDRL, TSH, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT, MRI, THROAT SWAB FOR C / S TEST, BIOPSY