The Japan Esophageal Society Co ...
The consensus meeting was held at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japan Esophageal Society (JES) in 2010. The majority of the 150 participants were s ...
Feeding catheter gastrostomy at ...
We introduce our novel and original idea of placing a feeding catheter gastrostomy (FCG) at esophagectomy with gastric tube reconstruction through t ...
Second-line combination chemoth ...
Background There is no standard second-line chemotherapy regimen after failure of the standard 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin in the treatment of esop ...
Surgical versus percutaneous tr ...
The choice between surgical (ST) and percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) is not often based on evidence. The aim is to evaluate the quality of evidence i ...
Pharyngo-laryngeal examination ...
The prognosis of cancer patients is highly dependent on the time of diagnosis. Early, stage 1 disease is often curable whereas late stage diseases a ...
Teaching Otolaryngology skills ...
Over the last couple of decades, learning through simulation has become popularised for various reasons and is continuing to expand exponentially de ...
Prevalence of age-related heari ...
Populations are becoming progressively older thus presenting symptoms of diminished organ function due to degenerative processes. These may be physi ...
Minimally invasive techniques f ...
The trend toward minimally invasive surgery, appropriately applied, has evolved over the past three decades to encompass all Welds of surgery, inclu ...
Effects of tumour stage, comorb ...
Laryngeal cancer is the second most common cancer of the respiratory tract with a relative 5-year survival over all tumour sites in the USA (61.6%; ...
Vestibular-evoked myogenic pote ...
Recently, the favoured approach for unilateral testing of saccular function is the recently developed method of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential ...
Current concepts of organ prese ...
The treatment of laryngeal and hypopharyngel cancer nowadays is not limited by surgical resection. There are many interdisciplinary approaches which ...
Update of prognostic and predic ...
Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) constitute about 5% of all cancers in the western world and the incidence and mortality rates of this ...
Post-operative complications af ...
The retrosigmoid (suboccipital) approach is one of four surgical approaches for the treatment of vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas). It is i ...
Hemorrhage rate after coblation ...
After the surgical procedure of tonsillectomy, hemorrhage ranks among its serious postoperative complications. In this systematic review, we analyze ...
Functional outcomes in retrosig ...
Although vestibular schewannomas (VSs) are relatively rare as compared to other intracranial tumors, growing attention is required to achieve better ...
What role do mucins have in the ...
Mucins are the dominant component in the protective mucus layer on mucosal surfaces including the larynx. Hence, they are part of the Wrst line of d ...
Suitability of Auditory Speech ...
A§E is an audiological evaluation tool based on speech sounds as stimuli and was developed by The Eargroup, Antwerp. It consists of three levels: d ...
Rhinitis sicca, dry nose and at ...
Despite the fact that many people suffer from it, an unequivocal definition of dry nose (DN) is not available. Symptoms range from the purely subjec ...
MRI performed after intratympan ...
The objective of the study was to compare the outcomes of a series of diagnostic parameters in Me´nie`re’s disease (MD) patients with the extent of ...
Study on the treatment of traum ...
Orbital apex syndrome (OAS) is a complex disease caused by a variety of pathological factors, and trauma is one of the main factors/causes. Clinical ...
Nanomedicine in otorhinolaryngo ...
Nanotechnology and nanomedicine are new and rapidly developing areas which are concerned with the utilisation of structures and devices, one billion ...
Carbonic anhydrase-9 expression ...
The purpose of the study was to compare CA-9 positivity versus CA-9 negativity in head and neck malignancies and to correlate levels of CA-9 with tu ...
A preliminary study on the role ...
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is a disease with unknown etiology. Recently, several studies revealed that some inherited prothrombotic ri ...
Non-sutured fixation of the int ...
The aim of this study is to describe an alternative technique to secure the receiver-stimulator of the cochlear implant to the skull with a tailored ...
The changes in submandibular gl ...
To investigate the effects of chorda tympani section on submandibular gland size and function in the early (postoperative day 7) and late (postopera ...