Using Innovative Acoustic Analysis to Predict the Postoperative Outcomes of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis

Table 2

Patient characteristics.

	Overall ()
	Number (percent)	Mean (SD)
Average age		53.53 (10.47)
Sex
Male	6 (35.29%)
Female	11 (64.71%)
Site of lesion
Rt	9 (52.94%)
Lt	8 (47.06%)
Etiology
Iatrogenic after thyroid surgery	17 (100%)
GRBAS
Grade		2.00 (0.00)
Roughness		2.18 (0.39)
Breathiness		2.24 (0.75)
Asthenia		1.94 (0.75)
Strain		1.47 (0.51)
MPT		4.88 (1.32)

Lt, left side; Rt, right side; GRBAS, grade, roughness, breathiness, asthenia, and strain scale; MPT, maximum phonation time.