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Botulinum toxin management of spasmodic dysphonia (laryngeal dystonia): A 12‐year experience in more than 900 patients

The Laryngoscope · 1998 · Vol. 108(10) · pp. 1435–1441
Andrew BlitzerMitchell F. BrinCelia Stewart

Abstract

Botulinum toxin A injection of the laryngeal hyperfunctional muscles has been found over the past 12 years to be the treatment of choice to control the dystonic symptoms in most patients with spasmodic dysphonia.

Voice and Speech DisordersBotulinum Toxin and Related Neurological DisordersNeurological disorders and treatmentsSpasmodic dysphoniaBotulinum toxinMedicineDystoniaAdductor musclesElectromyographyLarynxAnesthesiaFocal dystoniaPhonation

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AdultElectromyographyFemaleHumansMaleNeuromuscular AgentsRetrospective StudiesVoice DisordersTreatment OutcomeBotulinum Toxins, Type A
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