Speech outcomes after soft palate reconstruction with the soft palate insufficiency repair procedure

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1439-1444

  Rieger, Jana M ^a,b   Zalmanowitz, Jana G ^a   Li, Shirley Y Y ^a   Tang, Judith Lam ^a,b   Williams, David ^b   Harris, Jeffrey ^b   Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b  

^a Alberta Health Services Covenant Health University of Alberta   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional outcomes; Head and neck cancer; Nasalance; Oropharynx; Radial forearm free flap; Resonance; Soft palate reconstruction; Speech; Velopharyngeal orifice area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PALATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIUS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55549131563     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20884     Document Type: Article

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