[Rheumatoid arthritis in the cricoarytenoid joint].

We present a female patient of 42 years with hoarseness, irradiation of pain into the ear and feeling of fullness in the throat when speaking and swallowing. The symptoms lasted about 9 months and intensively last 10 days. The edema and redness as well as adduction of vocal cords was conformed by laryngoscopy. It was sure rheumatoid arthritis of the cricoarythenoid joint which reacted relatively good on prednisolone therapy.