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Improving Functional Outcomes in Patients With Unilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis: Assessment of Adaptation Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

NCT00597844 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2013-09-05

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to see how the brain re-learns to control the larynx in speaking and swallowing when undergoing surgical rehabilitation in the form of either thyroplasty or vocal fold augmentation for unilateral vocal cord paralysis. What is needed is information on how the brain re-learns to control speaking and swallowing so that we can eventually learn how to help patients re-learn faster after their procedure. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (or fMRI) will allow us to image your brain as you speak and swallow. We will produce "brain maps" for speaking, swallowing and hand movements.

Conditions

  • Intrathoracic Malignancies
  • Unilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis

Interventions

OTHER

voice evaluation and fMRI

will undergo voice evaluation and fMRI prior to surgical rehabilitation of UVCP and in approximately one month and six months following treatment.

OTHER

undergo voice evaluation and fMRI prior

in approximately one month and six months

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kyung Peck, PhD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-07-31
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • United States

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