The Quantitative Evaluation of Hoarseness: A New Harmonics to Noise Ratio Method

Archives of Otolaryngology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 48-52

  Yumoto, Eiji ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SPECTROGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0020566192     PISSN: 00039977     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.1983.00800150052010     Document Type: Article

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