Testosterone and the Larynx: Your Canary in a Coalmine
For a loved one whose Marfan syndrome taught me so much, who was also taken too soon.
Here is a cross section of the lamina propria which is the multilayered connective tissue surrounding the actual vocal muscle, the thyrovocalis. These layers can separate from drug-use and hyperfunction, as Miley Cyrus found out (Reinke's edema). Testosterone enlarges the thyrovocalis, which puts pressure on the overlying connective tissue layers from t…