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TOTAL LARYNGECTOMY WITH PRIMARY VOICE RESTORATION
Author(s) -
Cole IAN,
Miller STUART
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1992.tb07556.x
Subject(s) - medicine , laryngectomy , voice prosthesis , intelligibility (philosophy) , prosthesis , surgery , audiology , larynx , philosophy , epistemology
Forty‐three patients were prospectively studied following tracheo‐oesophageal puncture at the time of laryngectomy (primary voice restoration). Blom‐Singer voice prostheses were used. The surgery was regarded as successful if a patient continued to use the voice prosthesis as the major means of communication with clear intelligibility 4 months after the operation. Using this criterion, the success in this series was 70%. No attempt was made to assess the quality of speech. Complications and causes of failure are discussed.