Lidocaine block of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in adductor spasmodic dysphonia: A multidimensional assessment

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 591-595

  Smith, Marshall E ^a   Roy, Nelson ^b   Wilson, Cathy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidocaine; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Spasmodic dysphonia

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADDUCTOR SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHONIA; HEARING; HUMAN; NERVE BLOCK; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SELF REPORT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INNERVATION; LARYNX DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROBOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; PHONATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROBOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 33645902147     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLG.0000205588.04450.AC     Document Type: Article

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