Medical techniques for voice restoration after total laryngectomy
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Voice Restoration after Total Laryngectomy
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Over the past three decades a variety of surgical techniques have been developed for voice restoration following laryngectomy. The underlying principle of these procedures is to divert pulmonary air into the gullet where vibrations of the tissue creates the sound used for speech production. To achieve successful surgical voice restoration voice production must be compatible with normal deglutit...
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عنوان ژورنال: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0007-9235
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.40.3.166