congenital laryngeal palsy
Findings
No curated finding names congenital laryngeal palsy yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Congenital laryngeal palsy is a rare larynx anomaly characterized by unilateral or bilateral paralysis of the vocal cords as a result of dysfunction of the motor nerve supply to the larynx. Patients typically present at birth (or shortly thereafter) with stridor, weak or breathy cry, dysphonia or aphonia, feeding or aspiration difficulties and, occasionally, respiratory compromise. Neurological disease, masses that cause compression and aberrant vessels are often associated. Most cases resolve spontaneously over 6-12 months.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015316), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: congenital laryngeal palsy
- Also called
- congenital vocal cord paralysis