<i>Objective:</i> This study focuses on the relation between objective voice quality and the self-perception of a voice handicap. <i>Patients and Methods:</i> The study group consisted of 86 German-speaking patients (51 women, 35 men) suffering from benign dysphonia. The test persons completed the German version of the Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) Questionnaire without prior information about their diagnosis and underwent voice analysis with the Dysphonia Severity Index (DSI) being the parameter of this study. <i>Results:</i> No correlation between V-RQOL and DSI could be found (p > 0.05). On the V-RQOL, women scored worse than men, but not at a significant level. Patients with dysphonia of organic origin scored significantly worse than patients with functional dysphonia (p = 0.026). On the DSI, men’s values were significantly lower than women’s (p = 0.001). Organic dysphonia caused significantly lower DSI values than functional dysphonia (p = 0.011). <i>Conclusion:</i> Objective voice quality and the individual perception of voice quality by the patient are independent parameters. Both need to be assessed in clinical practice.

The scanning electron microscopy by virtue of its high resolution topographic reproduction of epithelial surfaces lining the female genital tract, provides unique information toward understanding the anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system. The human Fallopian ectopic pregnancy is an urgent gynecologic event, which was and still is a diagnostic challenge. There is an increase in the incidence of ectopic pregnancy in recent years. With the purpose of exploring the etiology of tubal ectopic pregnancy from the ultrastructure point of view, we examined 7 cases of tubal pregnancy and compared them to a similar number of normal tubes. We do not find evidence to the pathophysiology of tubal pregnancy by examination of the ultrastructure of the human tube with scanning electron microscopy.

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