Disease relevance of Otolaryngology

• METHODS: A comprehensive literature search was performed for articles using intratympanic gentamicin as a sole treatment modality with reporting of results according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) guidelines for Menière's disease [1].
• Thirty-six children with nasal dermoid sinus cysts were treated in the Department Pediatric Otolaryngology, Armand Trousseau's Children's Hospital (Paris, France) between 1974 and 1994 [2].
• In the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, cancer of the larynx is usually treated by primary surgery [3].
• MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-seven patients with chronic oroantral and oral fistula who underwent surgical correction in the Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery between 1968 and 2001 were reviewed retrospectively [4].
• METHODS: Eighty-eight fresh cases of unilateral cholesteatoma and 33 fresh cases of bilateral cholesteatoma, which were operated on at Department of Otolaryngology, Hyogo College of Medicine, were examined in this study [5].

High impact information on Otolaryngology

• Bárány began his career working in the otology clinic of Adam Politzer at the University of Vienna [6].
• However, in the subgroup of patients undergoing otorhinolaryngology surgery, surgical site bleeding occurred in 18 of 171 (10.5%) patients on tenoxicam and one of 57 (1.8%) on placebo (P=0.026); of these, nine in the tenoxicam group and 0 in the placebo were classified as major (P=0.07) [7].
• Biopsy specimens from Alaskan Native patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and from other patients seen on the otolaryngology service were tested for Epstein-Barr virus-specific DNA and nuclear antigen (EBNA) [8].
• METHODS: A retrospective chart review was conducted on all patients considered to have AIED by the Otolaryngology division physicians and on all patients positive for antibody testing to inner ear antigens from 1990 to 1999 [9].
• Sketches of otohistory Part 12: The history of otology in traditional Chinese medicine [10].

Biological context of Otolaryngology

• The effects of propofol on auditory evoked potentials were studied in nine patients undergoing otorhinolaryngology surgery [11].
• Of 75 patients with Menière's disease who received gentamycin and isosorbide therapy, 41 patients could be evaluated by the classification for Menière's disease proposed by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (AAOO) [12].
• Successful control measures included sterilizing cocaine solutions in the otolaryngology department and in the pharmacy and eliminating contaminated set-ups in the internal medicine department [13].
• The CO2 laser is a specialty instrument, particularly for microscopic applications in neurosurgery, otolaryngology, and gynecology [14].

Anatomical context of Otolaryngology

• RESULTS: The approach developed was tested on 785 vocal cord images collected at the Department of Otolaryngology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania [15].
• Atomizers working on the Venturi principle are used by otolaryngology departments in the UK to spray cocaine and other local anaesthetic and vasoconstricting solutions into the nasal cavities [16].
• The presentation to the Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Children's Hospital of Michigan of a series of patients with sensorineural hearing loss and enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct prompted exploratory tympanotomy in three patients (two unilateral and one bilateral), for a total of four ears [17].
• MATERIALS AND METHODS: One patient with dural venous sinus thrombosis complicating an otitis media, one patient with a large glomus jugulare tumor, and one patient with a sudden sensorineural hearing loss were treated by the otolaryngology service [18].

Associations of Otolaryngology with chemical compounds

• The use of the CO2 laser in otolaryngology: ten years of experience [19].
• Fifty-one patients (41 male, 10 female), who were referred to Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery with suspected OSAHS, between April 2003 and June 2004, were included in the study [20].
• CONCLUSION: The clinical use of cocaine in otolaryngology has decreased significantly in the past 25 years as a result of discontinuation of use by physicians who had previously used cocaine and an increasing number of otolaryngologists who have never used it [21].
• SETTING: Department of Otolaryngology, The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto. PATIENTS: Sixteen patients were identified with well-documented histories, physical findings and laboratory investigations consistent with topical gentamicin-induced ototoxicity [22].
• OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical manifestations of latex allergy in otolaryngology patients [23].

Gene context of Otolaryngology

• Genetic testing was completed on 1,294 persons with deafness referred to the Molecular Otolaryngology Research Laboratories to establish a diagnosis of DFNB1 [24].
• The continued spread of MRSA will have tremendous impact on the practice of medicine and otolaryngology during the next decade and beyond [25].
• Sketches of otohistory. Part 2: origins of otology in the British Isles: Wilde And Toynbee [26].
• Allergic rhinitis and its impact on otorhinolaryngology [27].
• SETTING: Collaborating otology practices in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana. PATIENTS: Sixty-three patients with rapidly progressive unilateral or bilateral sensorineural hearing loss of unknown cause suggestive of autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss [28].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Otolaryngology

• The use of CO2 laser surgery in otolaryngology has served as an effective tool to treat various lesions in the upper airway [29].
• OBJECTIVE: Lasers have been used in otolaryngology as a surgical instrument for more than 25 years, and the CO2 laser has emerged as the most widely employed surgical laser in use today [30].
• STUDY DESIGN: Four second-year otolaryngology residents, with no prior experience performing ethmoidectomies, performed endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) on formalin-fixed human cadaveric specimens with and without the aid of computer-assisted surgery (CAS) [31].
• "How I do it" - otology and neurotology. A specific issue and its solution. An alternative way of using TORP and PORP [32].
• SETTING: Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey METHODS: Twenty-four male Wistar rats were divided randomly into experimental and control groups [33].

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