Insights Into the Role of Collagen in Vocal Fold Health and Disease.
Sharon S Tang, Vidisha Mohad, Madhu Gowda, Susan L Thibeault
PMID 28359643WHAT IT FOUND
No patient outcomes or tested treatment effects are reported.
This review explains collagen's role in vocal fold tissue, wound healing, and experimental biomaterial ideas.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review of collagen in vocal fold tissue. It explains collagen structure, development, wound healing, and experimental biomaterial ideas, but it reports no patients, methods, or outcomes. There is no clinical finding here to change practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the described collagen injections, hydrogels, or scaffolds as proven treatments for voice disorders. The paper reports no clinical trial outcomes or patient results.