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Surgical voice restoration in alaryngeal patients

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Blom Singer’s technique of surgical voice restoration in laryngectomized patient is a highly successful method of speech rehabilitation. This technique has been further simplified and adopted in 20 of our cases with 90% success in acquiring speech. Though primary tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) is a good attempt of rehabilitation, we feel that post-operative healing and fibrosis will displace the puncture site causing difficulty to insert the prosthesis by the patient. The high success rate with secondary TEP makes us believe that it is a better technique to be adopted. Further, plan for secondary TEP will give enough time to the patients to develop oesophageal speech, if they are capable of.

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  1. Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Manipal, India

    P. Hazarika (Prof. & Head of ENT Unit-II), P. S. Murty (Reader in ENT), B. Raja Shekhar (Asst. Prof. in Audiol. & SP. Pathol) & A. Kumar (Registrar in ENT)

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Hazarika, P., Murty, P.S., Shekhar, B.R. et al. Surgical voice restoration in alaryngeal patients. Indian J Otolaryngol 42, 107–111 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02993143

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