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| Primary Author: |
Shanks, J.
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| Journal Title: |
Journal of Voice
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| Date Published: |
1990 |
| Language: |
English
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| Category: |
Orofacial Disorders
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| Key Words: |
throat musician performance voice instrument French horn |
| Full Citation: |
Shanks, J. C. Velopharyngeal Incompetence Manifested Initially in Playing a Musical Instrument. Journal of Voice 4, no. 2 (1990): 169-71. |
| Full Abstract: |
A twelve-year-old boy had played the French horn successfully for more than 16 months. With no warning or precipitation event, he began to lose oral air pressure after about one-half hour of playing. A year later, an assessment was made of the velopharyngeal (soft palate) dysfunction. Videotape, fluorography, electromyography, oral manometry, and neurologic and speech evaluation techniques were employed. A pharyngeal flap procedure was performed a year and a half later. No symptom related to voice quality or playing the French horn has reemerged in the past six years. |
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