Efficacy of conservative voice treatment in male-to-female transsexuals

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-118

  Mészáros, Krisztina ^a   Vitéz, Lajos Csokonai ^a   Szabolcs, István ^a   Góth, Miklós ^a   Kovács, László ^a   Görömbei, Zoltán ^a   Hacki, Tamás ^b  

^a NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Transsexuality; Voice disorder; Voice treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH REHABILITATION; TRANSEXUAL; VOICE;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMMUNICATION; ESTRADIOL; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TRANSSEXUALISM; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 20944445038     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083572     Document Type: Article

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