Long-term results of Provox ActiValve, solving the problem of frequent candida- and "underpressure"-related voice prosthesis replacements

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 252-257

  Soolsma, Jessica ^a   Van Den Brekel, Michiel W ^a,b   Ackerstaff, Annemieke H ^a   Balm, Alfons J ^c   Tan, Bing ^a,b   Hilgers, Frans J ^a,b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Active magnetic valve; Candida resistance; Prosthetic voice rehabilitation; Provox; Total laryngectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH REHABILITATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOICE; CANDIDIASIS; INFECTION; LARYNX DISORDER; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRESSURE; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDIASIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PRESSURE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 40949110630     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318159ebde     Document Type: Article

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