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Judgment of voice improvement after recurrent laryngeal nerve section for spastic dysphonia: clinicians versus patients. 1986

S Sapir, and A E Aronson, and J E Thomas

Four or more years after recurrent laryngeal nerve section for adductor spastic dysphonia, 25 patients assessed their voice quality and phonatory effort in relation to presurgical status, using categorical ratings (gradations of better or worse, and of easier and harder) and also numerical ratings. Quality was judged better by 88%, and effort easier by 84%; but many thought the improvement was only moderate or slight. Three speech pathologists, assessing presurgical and current recordings of the patient's voices numerically, rated the majority of the better and easier voices much closer to their presurgical status than to normal. Clinicians were highly consistent and reliable in their assessments. Patients were often in disagreement with clinician ratings and generally rated their dysphonia as less severe than the clinicians did. These discrepancies are discussed within the context of contradictory opinions regarding the efficacy of recurrent laryngeal nerve section for the treatment of adductor spastic dysphonia.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007600	Judgment	The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person to make judgments; the process of bringing to light and asserting the implicit meaning of a concept; a critical evaluation of a person or situation.	Judgement,Judgements,Judgments
D007823	Laryngeal Nerves	Branches of the VAGUS NERVE. The superior laryngeal nerves originate near the nodose ganglion and separate into external branches, which supply motor fibers to the cricothyroid muscles, and internal branches, which carry sensory fibers. The RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE originates more caudally and carries efferents to all muscles of the larynx except the cricothyroid. The laryngeal nerves and their various branches also carry sensory and autonomic fibers to the laryngeal, pharyngeal, tracheal, and cardiac regions.	Laryngeal Nerve, Superior,Laryngeal Nerve,Laryngeal Nerves, Superior,Nerve, Laryngeal,Nerve, Superior Laryngeal,Nerves, Laryngeal,Nerves, Superior Laryngeal,Superior Laryngeal Nerve,Superior Laryngeal Nerves
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D010699	Phonation	The process of producing vocal sounds by means of VOCAL CORDS vibrating in an expiratory blast of air.	Phonations
D012009	Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve	Branches of the vagus (tenth cranial) nerve. The recurrent laryngeal nerves originate more caudally than the superior laryngeal nerves and follow different paths on the right and left sides. They carry efferents to all muscles of the larynx except the cricothyroid and carry sensory and autonomic fibers to the laryngeal, pharyngeal, tracheal, and cardiac regions.	Laryngeal Nerve, Inferior,Inferior Laryngeal Nerve,Inferior Laryngeal Nerves,Laryngeal Nerve, Recurrent,Laryngeal Nerves, Inferior,Laryngeal Nerves, Recurrent,Nerve, Inferior Laryngeal,Nerve, Recurrent Laryngeal,Nerves, Inferior Laryngeal,Nerves, Recurrent Laryngeal,Recurrent Laryngeal Nerves
D003258	Consumer Behavior	Behavior associated with the procurement of goods, services, or experiences.	Consumer Preference,Consumer Satisfaction,Behavior, Consumer,Behaviors, Consumer,Consumer Behaviors,Consumer Preferences,Preference, Consumer,Preferences, Consumer,Satisfaction, Consumer
D005260	Female		Females
D005500	Follow-Up Studies	Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.	Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man