The Siberian Scientific Medical Journal
 
 
№ 4 / 2012 / 80-84

Assessment of external respiration function in laryngeal cancer patients at different stages of vocal rehabilitation

Author Affiliations

Abstract

The study included 60 males aged from 40 to 70 years. Parameters of external respiratory function (ERF) in laryngeal cancer patients after laryngectomy and organ-preserving surgery were assessed at different stages of vocal rehabilitation and compared with those observed in healthy subjects. All patients after surgical treatment before onset of vocal rehabilitation had impaired ERF parameters compared with healthy subjects. Impairment of the external respiratory function depended on the extent of surgery being more pronounced in laryngectomized patients. Voice rehabilitation of patients with organ-preserving surgery resulted in improvement of ERF parameters showing lower limits of normal, while laryngectomized patients had insignificant improvement of ERF parameters with expressed II–III grade restrictive and obstructive disorders.

Key words

vocal rehabilitation, larygectomy, organ preservation surgery of the larynx, laryngeal cancer, external respiratory function
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About Authors (Correspondence):

Krasavina E.A. – candidate of biological sciences, logopedist of the Head and Neck Tumor Department

Balatskaya L.N. – doctor of biological sciences, leading researcher of the Head and Neck Tumor Department

Choinzonov E.L. – doctor of medical sciences, professor, academician of RAMS, supervisor of the Head and Neck Tumor  Department                                                                                            

Nazarova L.S. – candidate of medical sciences, therapeutist 

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Received: 10/02/2015