Allegra and colleagues from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy
compared the acoustic quality of the rehabilitated voice achieved with
esophageal speech (ES) and tracheoesophageal speech (TES), and acoustic quality
impacts on 67 laryngectomees. The
authors found a significantly better
functional voice performance in TES patients compared to ES. However, there was no significant differences
between the two groups in physical, emotional, and socioeconomic performance.
The authors concluded that the
rehabilitation of laryngectomized patients must be addressed by a
multidisciplinary team that considers the personalities, personal needs, and
relational conditions of individual patients in order to determine and apply
the phonatory rehabilitation method most suitable for achieving a better
quality of life.
