Perceptual-Auditory and Acoustic Analysis of Breathiness in Cis and Transgender Men and Women.

Objective: To verify breathiness in the cisgender and transgender men and women's voices, compare values of acoustic and perceptual indicators of breathiness and fundamental frequency (f0) between groups, and compare them between the voices attributed as female and male.

Study Design: Cross sectional retrospective study.

Methods: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee (4,937,140).

Signs and symptoms of laryngopharyngeal reflux and its relation to complaints and vocal quality.

Purpose: To verify the association between laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) with age, gender, vocal deviation and voice complaints.

Methods: The study included patients between 18 and 70 years old, referred to the Otorhinolaryngology service for complaints of voice or reflux, of both sexes. Endolaryngeal findings were classified using the Reflux Finding Score (RFS) scale.

Laryngeal Electromyography Techniques and Clinical Use.

Laryngeal electromyography is considered a valuable diagnostic tool for voice disorders. The technique, described almost 70 years ago, evolved 3 decades later, mainly because of the growing interest of laryngologists and speech pathologists. In the authors' opinion, the reduced number of neurophysiologists involved in laryngeal electromyography groups is, at some instance, related to the difficulty to start the learning process and the multidisciplinary approach the field requires.

Laryngeal Electromyography: Are the Results Reproducible?

Unlabelled: Laryngeal electromyography (LEMG) is an auxiliary diagnostic technique that is used to study neurologic diseases that affect the larynx. This study aimed to verify the reproducibility and accordance of LEMG findings obtained by different approaches applied to the same intrinsic laryngeal muscle in patients with neurologic disorders of the larynx.

Study Design: This study is prospective, blind, randomized, and controlled.