Velopharyngeal incompetence: A guide for clinical evaluation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1890-1898

  Johns, Donnell F ^a,b   Rohrich, Rod J ^a,b   Awada, Mariam ^a,b  

^a Univ Texas Southwestern Med Ctr ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AERODYNAMICS; CANCER SURGERY; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLEFT PALATE; CLEFT PALATE CLOSURE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACE DEVELOPMENT; FLUOROSCOPY; HEARING; HUMAN; LATERAL CEPHALOMETRIC RADIOGRAPHY; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH EXAMINATION; MOVEMENT TRANSDUCTION; MULTIVIEW VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY; NASOPHARYNGOSCOPY; NASOPHARYNX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PALATOPLASTY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHARYNX; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SWALLOWING; ARTICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; SPEECH DISORDERS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 4444330261     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000091245.32905.D5     Document Type: Review

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