Endoscopic posterior cordotomy for treatment of dyspnea due to vocal fold immobility
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Voice Outcomes Following Posterior Cordotomy With Medial Arytenoidectomy in Patients With Bilateral Vocal Fold Immobility.
IMPORTANCE Voice quality-of-life (VQOL) and perceptual voice outcomes are presumed to worsen following posterior cordotomy with medial arytenoidectomy for bilateral vocal fold immobility (BVFI); however, subjective and objective voice outcomes are not well studied in this postsurgical patient population. OBJECTIVE To evaluate VQOL and perceptual voice outcomes following posterior cordotomy wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2049-6958,1828-695X
DOI: 10.4081/mrm.2020.35