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RICHARD W. WAGUESPACK, MD
Birmingham, Ala

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118(1):10.

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At the 1991 annual meeting of the Triological Society in Waikaloa, Hawaii, Steven D. Gray, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah, and coworkers David Jones, PhD, Indianapolis, Ind, and Julie Barkmeier, MS, Ingo Titze, PhD, Cynthia Shive, and David Drucker, Iowa City, Iowa, presented their findings of vocal function in 15 patients undergoing type I thyroplasty. This group was studied by voice intensity and frequency profile, acoustic and aerodynamic testing, and perceptual rating by 10 trained speech pathologists; comparison was made with four normal subjects. Between the group of patients who underwent thyroplasty and the group of normal control subjects, significant differences were noted in all perceptual parameters, except pitch, intonation, and loudness. Other measurements were different between the groups. For example, the frequency range in the study group averaged 16 semitones, compared with 37 semitones for the normal subjects. Likewise, the intensity range was 22 vs 40 dB for the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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