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- Title
Postlaryngectomy voice rehabilitation: state of the art at the millennium.
- Authors
Brown, Dale H; Hilgers, Frans J M; Irish, Jonathan C; Balm, Alfons J M
- Abstract
Total laryngectomy or laryngopharyngectomy remains the procedure of choice for advanced laryngeal/hypopharyngeal carcinoma, either as a primary procedure or as salvage following irradiation alone or concurrent chemoradiation therapy. Over the past 25 years there has been significant improvement in the rehabilitation of these patients, with speech restoration that has dramatically altered and improved their quality of life. This article reviews postlaryngectomy voice rehabilitation with a historical background as well as the present state-of-the-art tracheoesophageal shunt voice with an artificial valve. Finally, this article reviews and compares artificial valve prostheses as to their voice characteristics, patient satisfaction, complications associated with the procedure, and devices used at a center in Europe (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam) and a North American center (The Wharton Head and Neck Center, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada).
- Publication
World journal of surgery, 2003, Vol 27, Issue 7, p824
- ISSN
0364-2313
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00268-003-7107-4