Posterior pharyngeal augmentation in the treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency: A 40-year experience

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-51

  Lypka, Michael ^a   Bidros, Rafi ^a   Rizvi, Murtaza ^a   Gaon, Mark ^a   Rubenstein, Adam ^a   Fox, Donna ^a   Cronin, Ernest ^a  

^a St Joseph Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

cleft palate; pharyngeal augmentation; velopharyngeal insufficiency

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT PALATE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PHARYNX; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954244809     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181c1fec6     Document Type: Article

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