The development of successful tracheoesophageal voice restoration.
Effective treatment for laryngeal cancer concerns the preservation of voice. Progress has been made in treatment, rehabilitation,restoration of the airway, and nonsurgical treatments. With the introduction of tracheoesophageal speech and the voice prosthesis,many treated patients acquire socially acceptable speech after total laryngectomy and maintain satisfactory quality of life.
Singer
Mark I
MI
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. msinger@ohns.ucsf.edu
D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D007825:Laryngectomy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007830:Larynx / Q000637:transplantation; D007831:Larynx, Artificial; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013072:Speech, Esophageal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods