Voice Handicap and Health-Related Quality of Life in Laryngectomees: Assessments with the Use of VHI and EORTC Questionnaires

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-92

  Lundström, Elisabet ^a,b   Hammarberg, Britta ^a   Munck Wikland, Eva ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Laryngectomy; Quality of life; Voice Handicap Index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY; SMELLING DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH DISORDER; VOICE HANDICAP INDEX; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 61849095250     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000208807     Document Type: Article

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