Background Esophageal speech (ES), tracheoesophageal speech (TES) and/or
electrolarynx speech (ELS) are three speech rehabilitation methods which are commonly …

The ability to speak and communicate with one's voice is a unique human characteristic and
is fundamental to many activities of daily living, such as talking on the phone and speaking …

Excessive vocal effort is a common clinical voice symptom, yet the acoustical manifestation
of vocal effort and how that is perceived by speakers and listeners has not been fully …

Achieving voice in the absence of a functional larynx has been described for more than 150
years. 1 In 1859, Czermak and colleagues 1, 2 described a girl with laryngeal stenosis who …

Purpose Patients with throat cancer at later stages often undergo total laryngectomy, a
procedure that removes the larynx (voice box) and directly impacts the patient's ability to …

Objective Organ preservation (OP) treatment for advanced laryngeal cancer has increased
compared to primary total laryngectomy. Our study compares oncologic and functional …

Objective Treatment of advanced laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer has shifted from
total laryngectomy (TL) toward laryngeal‐preserving therapies due to a general perception …

Introduction Total laryngectomy has important psychophysical and social consequences for
patients' quality of life because of the functional changes resulting from the removal of the …

Background The purpose of this study was to present our evaluation of the clinical and
functional outcomes after salvage total laryngectomy (STL). Methods We conducted a …

Background The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between
communicative participation and postlaryngectomy speech outcomes, including listener …