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The Center for Voice and Swallowing (617-636-2887) is a comprehensive care clinic for disorders of the larynx (voice box) related to voice and swallowing. Patients are seen in a joint fashion by both a Laryngologist and a dedicated Speeech and Language Pathologist to fully evaluate and offer treatments in the following areas including, but not limited to, changes in the speaking or singing voices and swallowing:
- Professional voice care (professional singers, actors, musicians, teachers, lecturers, etc.)
- Hoarseness (sudden or persistent)
- Chronic cough
- Acid or non-acid reflux disease
- Spasmodic dysphonia
- Vocal cord paralysis and paresis
- Laryngeal papillomatosis (recurrent respiratory papillomatosis or RRP)
- Early vocal cord cancers (focusing both on treatment and voice preservation)
- Vocal fatigue
- Breathing problems related to narrowing of the voice box
- Laryngeal trauma
- Difficulty swallowing
A care plan is generated at the first visit through our team approach and the patient does not require a seperate evaluation on a subsequent visit by a Speech and Language Pathologist to start treatment.
Treatment options range from conservative but appropriate voice therapy for both speaking and singing voice problems to cutting-edge endoscopic in-office procedures, operative microlaryngeal phonosurgery, and laryngeal framework surgery.
In-office procedures offered include:
- Laryngovideostroboscopy
- Vocal cord injections for vocal cord paralysis
- Trans-oral biopsies of vocal cord lesions
- KTP laser treatments for RRP, leukoplakia, other benign lesions of the vocal cords, edema of the vocal cords from smoking and vascular lesions
- Trans-nasal screening esophagoscopy for GERD of laryngopharyngeal reflux
- Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing
- Laryngeal EMG (team approach with a neurologist to evaluate vocal cord motion abnormalities)
- Laryngeal EMG guided Botox injections for the treatment of Spasmodic Dysphonia
The Center for Voice and Swallowing care team includes:
Thomas L. Carroll, MD, Director, Laryngologist
Elizabeth VonEuw, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech and Language Pathologist
Liz Parrillo, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech and Language Pathologist
Jen Jackson, MA, CCC-SLP, Voice Pathologist
For questions or inquiries please call 617-636-2887
or email crobbs@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
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