The probabilty of recovery in idopathic vocal fold paralysis is almost always stated as aggregate rate for all affected patients. Examination of the Parker Institute experience shows that this does not reflect clinical reality well. In a paper published in the January 2018 issue of The Laryngoscope, Husain and co-athors show that the probability of spontaneous recovery changes, decreasing over the course of the condition until it reaches near-zero at slightly more than one year from...
