Open AccessSpeech outcome in oral cancer patients - pre- and post-operative evaluation: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Gomathi Saravanan,
Venkatesan Ranganathan,
Anitha Gandhi,
V. Jaya
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1075.191858
Subject(s) - medicine , tongue , intelligibility (philosophy) , rehabilitation , articulation (sociology) , audiology , lesion , cancer , surgery , physical therapy , pathology , philosophy , epistemology , politics , political science , law
The tongue plays a major role in articulation. Speech outcome depends on the site of lesion, extent of resection, and flexibility of the remaining structures. The aim of this study is to evaluate the speech outcome measures such as sounds that are misarticulated and speech intelligibility and its connection to tumor site before and after surgery.