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    This document provides a differential diagnosis flowchart for a patient presenting with hoarseness of voice for over 2 weeks. It outlines potential acute infectious, traumatic, chronic functional, neoplastic, neurological/neuromuscular, and systemic/endocrine causes that should be considered and evaluated. Common diagnoses include laryngitis, vocal nodules, laryngeal carcinoma, hypothyroidism, and neurological disorders impacting the larynx.

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    This document provides a differential diagnosis flowchart for a patient presenting with hoarseness of voice for over 2 weeks. It outlines potential acute infectious, traumatic, chronic functional, neoplastic, neurological/neuromuscular, and systemic/endocrine causes that should be considered and evaluated. Common diagnoses include laryngitis, vocal nodules, laryngeal carcinoma, hypothyroidism, and neurological disorders impacting the larynx.

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    General Differential Diagnoses in a Patient with Hoarseness

    HOARSEN
    ESS
    >2
    weeks
    Yes

    No

    Acute

    Infectio
    us

    Trauma

    Laryngit
    is

    Submuc
    osal
    hemorra
    Larynge
    al

    Influenz
    a
    Viral
    Exanthe
    ms
    Laryngotracheobronchiti
    s
    Diphther
    ia
    Syphilis

    Viral
    Exanthe
    ms

    Foreign
    body
    Intubati
    on

    Chronic

    Function
    al
    Voice
    overuse
    Spasmo
    dic

    Medication
    associated
    Corticostero
    id
    associated
    hoarseness
    Anticholiner
    gic
    associated
    hoarseness

    Neoplas
    tic
    Reinkes
    Edema

    Papilloma
    Vocal
    polyp
    Vocal
    nodules
    Carcinoma

    Neurological/

    Systemic/

    Neuromuscula
    r

    Endocrine
    /
    Infectious

    Parkinso
    ns
    Disease

    Hypothyroi
    dism

    Atrophi
    c
    larnygit

    Granulomat
    ous disease

    Myasthe
    nia
    gravis

    Tuberculosi
    s

    Paralysis
    of
    recurren
    t or
    superior
    laryngea
    l nerves
    or both

    Rheumatoi
    d arthritis
    (cricoaryte
    noid joints)

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