Objective assessment of speech after surgical treatment for oral cancer: Experience from 196 selected cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 114-125

  Nicoletti, Giovanni ^a   Soutar, David S ^b   Jackson, Mary S ^b   Wrench, Alan A ^b   Robertson, Gerry ^b   Robertson, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; XERORADIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 1242331965     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000095937.45812.84     Document Type: Article

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