Dysphonia and dysphagia after anterior cervical decompression

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 124-130

  Tervonen, Hanna ^a   Niemelä, Mika ^a   Lauri, Eija Riitta ^a   Bäck, Leif ^a   Juvas, Anja ^a   Räsänen, Pirjo ^b   Roine, Risto P ^b   Sintonen, Harri ^c   Salmi, Tapani ^a   Vilkman, Erkki ^a   Aaltonen, Leena Maija ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF HELSINKI AND UUSIMAA   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical decompression; Dysphagia; Dysphonia; Vocal fold paralysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUOROGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH THERAPY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; STROBOSCOPY; VIDEOLARYNGOSTROBOSCOPY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LARYNX; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 34547670594     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/SPI-07/08/124     Document Type: Article

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