A thin tracheal silicone washer to solve periprosthetic leakage in laryngectomies: Direct results and long-term clinical effects

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 640-645

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

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Periprosthetic leakage; Prosthetic voice rehabilitation; Silicone washer; Total laryngectomy; Tracheal flange

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERIPROSTHETIC LEAKAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SILICONE WASHER; TRACHEA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41849093416     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31816067d5     Document Type: Article

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