Electroglottographic Comparison of Voice Outcomes in Patients With Advanced Laryngopharyngeal Cancer Treated by Chemoradiotherapy or Total Laryngectomy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 344-352

  Kazi, Rehan ^a,b   Venkitaraman, Ramachandran ^a   Johnson, Catherine ^a   Prasad, Vyas ^a   Clarke, Peter ^a   Rhys Evans, Peter ^a   Nutting, Christopher M ^a   Harrington, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Electroglottography; Total laryngectomy; Voice function

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ELECTROGLOTTOGRAPHY; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL CANCER; TOTAL LARYNGECTOMY; VOICE FUNCTIONS;

ONCOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNGOGRAPHY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VOICE CHANGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 38149037999     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.06.040     Document Type: Article

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