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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1996;39(3): 483-9. |
Results of Vocal Rehabilitation on Laryngectomees with Low-Resistance, Indwelling Voice Prosthesis |
Kwang-Moon Kim, MD, Jung-Il Cho, MD, Hong-Shik Choi, MD, Young-Ho Kim, MD, Won Pyo Hong, MD, Hyoung-Jin Moon, MD, and Kuk Jin Park, MD |
Department of Otorhinolarygology, The Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea |
후두 적출자에서 Low-Resistance, Indwelling Voice Prosthesis를 이용한 음성재활의 결과 |
김광문 · 조정일 · 최홍식 · 김영호 · 홍원표 · 문형진 · 박국진 |
연세대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실, 음성언어의학연구소 |
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ABSTRACT |
Total laryngectomy has a profound impact of the patient's life. It is for this reason that a daptation to the loss of normal speech has been the focus of research on the rehabilitation of laryngectomees. Significant improvement of the prosthetic voice rehabilitation in laryngectomized patients has been accomplished in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the results of the voice rehabilitation using low-resistance, indwelling voice prosthesis(ProvoxTM) for the laryngectomees. The data collected in 16 patients with ProvoxTM voice prosthesis. 10 patients(62.5%) are still using the ProvoxTM. The average device-life was 9.8 months. Good to fair vocal rehabilitation was achieved on 14 patients(87.5%). Insertion and maintenance were simple and complication was minor problem. The above results indicated that ProvoxTM was an effective tools in the voice rehabilitation of laryngectomees.
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Keywords:
Voice rehabilitationㆍLaryngectomeeㆍProsthesis. |
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