The world's first wiki where authorship really matters (Nature Genetics, 2008). Due credit and reputation for authors. Imagine a global collaborative knowledge base for original thoughts. Search thousands of articles and collaborate with scientists around the globe.

wikigene or wiki gene protein drug chemical gene disease author authorship tracking collaborative publishing evolutionary knowledge reputation system wiki2.0 global collaboration genes proteins drugs chemicals diseases compound
Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)
 

Editor

Share

Personal info

View

Links

About

Terms

 

 
 
 
 

Tympanomastoidectomy for chronic suppurative otitis media of irradiated ears of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.

Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and osteoradionecrosis of the temporal bone are common sequelae of nasopharyngeal carcinoma ( NPC) after radiotherapy. Tympanomastoidectomies were carried out for CSOM in 16 patients who had completed radiotherapy for NPC. Eleven (69%) patients had successful tympanoplasty; in eight of them, the otorrhoea was controlled, and the other three patients had persistent otorrhoea due to exposed osteoradionecrotic bone in the external ear canal. Localized osteoradionecrosis of the external ear canal is often associated with CSOM in NPC patients. Adequate removal of necrotic bone is essential in addition to successful tympanoplasty to eliminate otorrhoea. Therefore, we recommended tympanomastoidectomy for NPC patients with active CSOM who fail to respond to conservative treatment.[1]

References

  1. Tympanomastoidectomy for chronic suppurative otitis media of irradiated ears of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. Yuen, P.W., Wei, W.I. The Journal of otolaryngology. (1994) [Pubmed]
Annotations and hyperlinks in this abstract are from individual authors of WikiGenes or automatically generated by the WikiGenes Data Mining Engine. The abstract is from MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.About WikiGenesOpen Access LicencePrivacy PolicyTerms of Useapsburg
 
WikiGenes - Universities