Acoustic parameters of speech: Lack of correlation with perceptual and questionnaire-based speech evaluation in patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer treated with primary surgery.
Head Neck
; 38(5): 670-6, 2016 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25524696
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Acoustic evaluation of speech is the least explored method of speech evaluation in patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer. The purpose of this study was to explore acoustic parameters of speech and their correlation with questionnaire evaluation and perceptual evaluation in patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer.METHODS:
One hundred seventeen subjects (65 consecutive patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer and 52 controls) participated in this study. Formant frequencies (by Linear Predictive Coding), Speech Handicap Index, and London Speech Evaluation scale were used for acoustic evaluation, questionnaire evaluation, and perceptual evaluation, respectively.RESULTS:
Men showed significant elevation in second formant (F2) values for patients with oral cavity cancer and those who underwent surgery alone. Female patients with early T classification cancers and those who underwent surgery and chemoradiation showed significant reduction in the mean F2 values. Importantly, however, acoustic evaluation parameters did not correlate with either perceptual evaluation or questionnaire evaluation parameters, although there was moderate correlation between questionnaire evaluation and perceptual evaluation speech parameters.CONCLUSION:
Acoustic evaluation modalities have no clear role in the management of patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Speech Acoustics
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Speech Disorders
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Speech Production Measurement
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Mouth Neoplasms
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Oropharyngeal Neoplasms
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspects:
Patient_preference
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Head Neck
Journal subject:
NEOPLASIAS
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom