title: [The voice prosthesis. An underutilized procedure in rehabilitation?].
abstract: In the last 10 years nearly 4450 patients who had undergone laryngectomy have attended speech therapy as part of a resident rehabilitation programme. Most of them mastered the technique of esophageal speech. The most surprising finding was that only 1.5% achieved speech by way of a tracheo-esophageal fistula or voice prosthesis, whereas this was true of 15% of such patients seen in the first 3 months of 1993.
authors.affiliation: Klinik Alpenland Bad Reichenhall.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Seinsch
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007825:Laryngectomy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007831:Larynx, Artificial / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013071:Speech, Alaryngeal; D013072:Speech, Esophageal
vernacular_title: Die Stimmprothese. Ein zu wenig genutztes Verfahren der Rehabilitation?