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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2011 Sep 6;121(10):2172–2179. doi: 10.1002/lary.21754

Table 3.

Demographic and disease-related data for two study groups.

Medialization Reinnervation
N 12 12
Age, median 57 53
 Range 36 – 83 44 – 68
Female : Male 8 : 4 5 : 7
Side left : right 6 : 6 9 : 3
Site of Lesion
 Proximal (%) 2 (17) 2 (17)
 Middle 3 (25) 1 (8)
 Distal 6 (50) 4 (33)
 Unknown 1 (8) 5 (42)
ACE-27 comorbidity score
 0 (no comorbid.) 3 (25) 6 (50)
 1 (mild comorbid.) 4 (33) 3 (25)
 2 (moderate comorbid.) 5 (42) 3 (25)
 3 (severe comorbid.) 0 0
Pre-Rx voice quality
 “Good” : “Bad” 7 : 5 5 : 7
 Mean G+B 3.55 3.50
Months since onset, median* 7.2 18.3
 Range 1.3 – 51.8 7.9 – 144.6
Smoker current / former 2 / 4 2 / 5
Class V EMG 4 3
MPT, median (seconds) 4.7 4.4
 Range 1.8 – 25.4 2.1 – 11.8

Mean G+B is sum of G (grade) and B (breathiness) GRBAS subscores.

*

This is the only pre-treatment parameter in which where ML and LR groups were significantly different from each other (p=0.023)