[State of the larynx in children with congenital cleft lip and palate].

Organic dysphonia was diagnosed in 27.4% of 215 children with congenital cleft lip and palate aged from 1.5 to 15 years. The above malformation was associated with such organic laryngeal diseases as edema, hypertrophy, nodules of the vocal cords and chronic laryngitis incidence of which directly correlates with duration and severity of the defect, age of the patient and time of reestablishment of the palatopharyngeal ring. After plastic repair of the oronasal defect, with age, laryngeal pathology gradually relieves.