Analysis of the mechanical behavior of the nijdam voice prosthesis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1656-1660

  Verkerke, Gijsbertus S ^a   De Vries, Martin P ^a   Schutte, Harm K ^a   Van Den Hoogen, Frank J A ^b   Rakhorst, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOMECHANICS; DEVICE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VOICE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 0030701979     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199712000-00015     Document Type: Article

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