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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    The Groningen Voice Prosthesis for Secondary Voice Rehabilitation after Total Laryngectomy

    The problem of an open tracheo-oesophageal fistula which would allow air to pass in one direction without aspiration remained unsolved until Singer and Blom (1979) developed a technique using a valved silicon ...

    H. F. Nijdam, A. A. Annyas, H. K. Schutte in Speech Restoration Via Voice Prostheses (1986)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    The Groningen Button Results

    In 1980, the first Groningen button was placed in a patient undergoing a total laryngectomy in the ENT-department of the Groningen University Hospital.

    H. F. Mahieu, A. A. Annyas, H. F. Nijdam in Speech Restoration Via Voice Prostheses (1986)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    The Groningen Voice Prosthesis for Voice Rehabilitation During Total Laryngectomy

    Speech loss is the most distressing side-effect of total laryngectomy. Voice rehabilitation through learning oesophageal speech by injection is still the most preferred method for speech restoration after tota...

    H. F. Nijdam, A. A. Annyas, K. T. van der Laan in Speech Restoration Via Voice Prostheses (1986)

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    Aerodynamic characteristics of the Nijdam voice prosthesis in relation to tracheo-esophageal wall thickness

    Tracheo-esophageal speech using various prostheses is currently the most successful form of voice and speech rehabilitation for laryngectomees. Main inter-device differences are durability and trans-device pre...

    A. Veenstra, F. J. A. van den Hoogen in European Archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology (1997)