MDU 4003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Primary Care Physician, Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate, Otology
16 Aug 2015
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Voice box: larynx, upper digestive tract (esophagus) treatment of the throat would include swallowing and voice disorders. Rhinology (treatment of nasal diseases): sinus disorders, nosebleeds, treatment of stuffy nose, treatment of loss of smell, 60 yr old male with history of ear/throat pain with hoarseness for about 3 months. referred from primary care physician (family practitioner) after the doctor noted no improvement of antibiotics . Physical exam: no palpable neck masses or red. Flexible laryngoscopy ( flexible labryoptic scope is placed through the nose into nasal cavity and throat so that vocal chords can be examined without putting the patient to sleep, done in office) showed mass in right true vocal cord. Mass of right true vocal cord and suspicious symptoms => ct scan to rule out metastasis in the neck even though it came out negative and to evaluate the invasion of the potentially cancerous solution.
