Cricothyroid approximation and subluxation in 21 male-to-female transsexuals

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 611-618

  Kanagalingam, Jeeve ^a,b   Georgalas, Christos ^a   Wood, Gary R ^a   Ahluwalia, Suki ^a   Sandhu, Guri ^a   Cheesman, Anthony D ^a  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL THROAT NOSE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cricothyroid approximation; Male to female transsexual; Pitch raising surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRICOTHYROID APPROXIMATION; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; LARYNX SURGERY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; PITCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SPEECH; SPEECH THERAPY; SURGEON; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CRICOID CARTILAGE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SPEECH THERAPY; THYROID CARTILAGE; TRANSSEXUALISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 17244380277     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000161357.12826.33     Document Type: Article

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