Preface.- Acknowledgement -- Foreword.- Basic Knowledge of Vocal Fold Paralysis -- Etiologies of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Conventional Surgical Procedures Used to Treat Paralytic Dysphonia -- Denervation and Reinnervation of the Thyroarytenoid Muscle -- Diagnosis of Paralytic Dysphonia and its Clinical Characteristics -- Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis; Reinnervation of the Thyroarytenoid Muscle.- Summary and Future Perspectives.