Does prosthesis diameter matter? The relationship between voice prosthesis diameter and complications

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 740-746

  Starmer, Heather M ^a   Agrawal, Nishant ^a   Koch, Wayne ^a   Richmon, Jeremy ^a   Webster, Kimberly ^a   Gourin, Christine G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Total laryngectomy; Tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis; Voice prosthesis diameter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL VOICE PROSTHESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 80051721622     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599810395362     Document Type: Article

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