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  2. Laryngectomy - Wikipedia

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    Laryngectomy is the removal of the larynx. In a total laryngectomy, the entire larynx is removed (including the vocal folds, hyoid bone, epiglottis, thyroid and cricoid cartilage and a few tracheal cartilage rings) with the separation of the airway from the mouth, nose and esophagus. [1] In a partial laryngectomy, only a portion of the larynx ...

  3. Theodor Billroth - Wikipedia

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    In 1873, he performed the first laryngectomy, completely excising a cancerous larynx. [6] [7] He was the first surgeon to excise a rectal cancer and by 1876, he had performed 33 such operations. By 1881, Billroth had made intestinal surgery seem almost commonplace.

  4. Alaryngeal speech - Wikipedia

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    [1] [7] In one case, pharyngeal speech was studied in a 12-year-old girl that used it as her exclusive form of speech following tracheotomy at 2 years of age. [7] Such speech was impaired in spite of ten years of her exclusive use of it for communication. Fifty percent of her time while speaking was silence.

  5. Tracheo-esophageal puncture - Wikipedia

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    A tracheo-esophageal puncture (or tracheoesophageal puncture) is a surgically created hole between the trachea (windpipe) and the esophagus (food pipe) in a person who has had a total laryngectomy, a surgery where the larynx (voice box) is removed. The purpose of the puncture is to restore a person’s ability to speak after the vocal cords ...

  6. Category:Larynx surgery - Wikipedia

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  7. Your Thanksgiving Turkey Will Be Cheaper This Year - AOL

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    Sweet potatoes, for instance, dropped by 26.2%, while the cost of 1-pound of frozen peas went down by about 8%. A 30-ounce can of pumpkin pie mix, whole milk, frozen pie crust, and one-pound ...

  8. This Family Drives 350 Miles For What Could Be A Common ...

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    The temperature drops from 6 degrees to 3 to 1. A road sign reads “Pass With Care.” Cell phone bars vanish one by one, until there are none. Fischer and his mother view these monthly trips as a chance to make up for lost time. Anderson gave birth to him 15 years after her first-born son and a decade after her daughter.

  9. Leopold von Schrötter - Wikipedia

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    Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli, (name often given as Leopold von Schrötter in medical literature) (February 5, 1837 – April 22, 1908) was an Austrian internist and laryngologist born in Graz.