Impact of topical anesthesia on acoustic characteristics of voice during laryngeal telescopic examination

This study showed that anesthesia has little effect on voice performance for subjects with a normal voice. On the other hand, the acoustic characteristics changed significantly during telescopic performance. When doing interpretation of acoustic data, the abnormality of the acoustic characteristics might be the result of the procedures and not reflect vocal pathology. Laryngeal variations due to manipulation of telescope should be ruled out.