Computerized acoustic voice analysis and subjective scaled evaluation of the voice can avoid the need for laryngoscopy after thyroid surgery

Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-271

  Ortega, Joaquin ^a   Cassinello, Norberto ^a   Dorcaratto, Dimitri ^a   Leopaldi, Ennio ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTERIZED ACOUSTIC VOICE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GIRBAS SCALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 60149100322     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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