Prospective multi-arm evaluation of surgical treatments for vocal fold scar and pathologic sulcus vocalis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1252-1260

  Welham, Nathan V ^a   Choi, Seong Hee ^a   Dailey, Seth H ^a   Ford, Charles N ^a   Jiang, Jack J ^a   Bless, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Larynx; Phonosurgery; Sulcus vocalis; Treatment efficacy; Vocal fold scar

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRIX; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT IMPLANTATION; HEARING; HUMAN; INJECTION LARYNGOPLASTY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX SURGERY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROBOSCOPY; SULCUS VOCALIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; THYROPLASTY; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; VOCAL FOLD SCAR;

AGED; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LARYNGOPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; THYROID CARTILAGE; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 79958265017     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21780     Document Type: Article

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