TABLE 2.
Preoperative Mean (SD) | Postoperative Mean (SD) | P | |
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Perceptual measures | |||
Roughness | 0.6 (0.5) | 0.9 (0.5) | .179 |
Breathiness | 0.4 (0.6) | 0.4 (0.5) | .822 |
Strain | 0.1 (0.3) | 0.1 (0.4) | .577 |
Low pitch | 0.1 (0.3) | 0.4 (0.5) | .035 |
High pitch | 0.5 (0.8) | 0.1 (0.3) | .067 |
Loudness | 0.8 (0.7) | 0.6 (0.5) | .452 |
Hoarseness | 0.2 (0.6) | 0.6 (0.8) | .112 |
Acoustic measures | |||
CPP vowel (dB) | 10.6 (2.2) | 9.8 (2.5) | .308 |
CSID vowel | 25.6 (29.6) | 25.8 (14.7) | .332 |
CPP speech (dB) | 7.7 (1.3) | 7.3 (1.3) | .510 |
CPP F0 (dB) | 137.1 (21.5) | 139.4 (18.7) | .752 |
CSID speech | 8.3 (13.1) | 3.0 (17.8) | .174 |
Passage reading | |||
Quantity of breaths | 6.6 (3.1) | 6.2 (2.5) | .859 |
Duration (seconds) | 25.8 (7.0) | 26.5 (8.3) | .990 |
Mean SPL (dB) | 72.5 (5.6) | 68.8 (4.9) | .139 |
Mean pitch (Hz) | 134.2 (23.7) | 138.2 (20.7) | .681 |
Mean pitch range (Hz) | 157.3 (89.2) | 114.6 (66.9) | .213 |
Mean phonatory airflow | 155.0 (72.6) | 171.8 (79.1) | .283 |
(mL/s) |
CPP = cepstral peak prominence, CSID = cepstral spectral index of dysphonia, F0 = fundamental frequency, SPL = sound pressure level.