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The Impact of the Glottic Configuration After Frontolateral Laryngectomy on the Perceptual Voice Analysis: A Preliminary Study
- Source :
- Journal of Voice. 22:760-764
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- After the surgical treatment for early glottic carcinoma, the patients end up with voice disturbances in different grades. The aim of this study was to characterize the laryngeal configuration regarding the anterior commissure synechia and its relationship to the perceptual vocal quality. Twenty-five patients underwent frontolateral vertical partial laryngectomy and reconstruction with bipedicle sternohyoid muscle flap resulting from T1b/T2 glottic squamous cell carcinoma from January 1996 to December 2004. Of the 25 patients, 24 were male with a median age of 61 years. The patients were free of disease and the evaluation was performed after a minimum postoperative period of 12 months. Measurements of the anterior commissure synechia and the free border of both vocal folds were simultaneously performed with the perceptual analysis of the voice through GRBAS scale. We calculated the mathematical proportion between the midsagittal dimension of the synechia of the anterior commissure and the measurement of the free border of the intermembranous region of each vocal fold. The higher the relative measurement of the anterior commissure synechia, the worse the overall grade of hoarseness (G) for both vocal folds (P0.001), the worse the roughness (R) for both vocal folds (P0.001), and the worse the strained quality (S) for both the reconstructed (P=0.0086) and the preserved (P=0.0026) vocal folds. These results suggest that the relative measurement of the anterior commissure synechia is a crucial factor worsening voice quality and that the perceptual analyses score has a strong correlation to the synechia's impact.
- Subjects :
- Male
Glottis
medicine.medical_specialty
Voice Disturbances
Voice Quality
medicine.medical_treatment
Laryngectomy
Pilot Projects
Anterior commissure
Voice analysis
Speech and Hearing
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
Humans
Medicine
Laryngeal Neoplasms
Synechia
Retrospective Studies
business.industry
Middle Aged
LPN and LVN
medicine.disease
Glottic Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Sternohyoid muscle
Vocal folds
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08921997
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Voice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bdd8694d5a834f0d0b12a8827a878fee