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Title: [One-stage voice rehabilitation in total laryngectomy]. Author: Li S. Journal: Zhonghua Er Bi Yan Hou Ke Za Zhi; 1989; 24(1):46-8, 63. PubMed ID: 2641879. Abstract: The posterior wall of the upper trachea was used to make a T-E shunt. An intelligible shunt speech could thus develop two weeks postoperatively. This procedure is reliable, easy and safe, and is applicable in almost all of total laryngectomy cases. A big horizontal tuck-situated above the shunt and made of mucous membrane of the inferior pharyngeal wall and the posterior cricoid was helpful in preventing aspiration.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]