Speech handicap index in patients with oral and pharyngeal cancer: Better understanding of patients' complaints

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 868-874

  Rinkel, Rico N ^a   Verdonck de Leeuw, Irma M ^a   Van Reij, Ellen J ^a   Aaronson, Neil K ^b   Leemans, René ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Oral cancer; Quality of life; SHI; Speech disorder; Speech handicap index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH HANDICAP INDEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 47549085397     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20795     Document Type: Article

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