Use of an 'elephant trunk' shunt for voice restoration: a decade of experience in voice restoration using a free jejunal graft in patients who have undergone laryngopharyngoesophagectomy

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-222

  Nozaki, Motohiro ^a   Sakurai, Hiroyuki ^a   Takeuchi, Masaki ^a   Nakazawa, Hiroaki ^a   Sasaki, Kenji ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Jejunum; Laryngopharyngectomy; Voice restoration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; JEJUNUM; LARYNX SURGERY; MALE; PHARYNX; PHONATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA; VOICE;

AGED; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; JEJUNUM; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGECTOMY; PHONATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TRACHEA; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33846816959     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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