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. 2020 Mar 21;87(4):788–795. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa024

TABLE 2.

Change in voice measures across the cohort

Preoperative Mean (SD) Postoperative Mean (SD) P
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.