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Using a microscope to change a speech valve
Author(s) -
Farboud Amir,
Jacques Thomas,
Trinidade Aaron
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00013.x
Subject(s) - psychology , microscope , medical physics , medicine , pathology
Replacing a speech valve can be a difficult procedure to learn and perform. In this letter the authors propose a method using an operating microscope, which their department has found useful in performing this procedure, and in teaching trainees.