AbstractPrevious research findings demonstrated that cochlear implants (CIs) users have essential challenges with speech recognition in the presence of background noise. Therefore, this study aimed to determine speech-in-noise (SiN) perception in Persian sch.....
AbstractDysphagia including post-extubation dysphagia (PED) is a concern in hospitalized patients on intensive care units. Earlier studies, which were mostly limited by study design, patient selection, and/or limited patient numbers, reported conflicting and.....
AbstractBackground: Septoplasty is a common surgical procedure in ENT where the objective is essentially functional and which allows the correction of septal deviations responsible for discomfort and alterations of respiratory function.
AbstractPercutaneous tracheostomy is a common procedure performed in NICU Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units in patients with TBI Traumatic Brain Injury - to secure the airway
AbstractRhinitis is a chronic inflammatory process of the nasal mucosa that can progress to structural alterations characterized as airway remodeling such as observed in asthmatic patients
AbstractAim: Patients with glottic cancer usually undergo voice deterioration due to insufficient glottic closure after cordectomy. We aimed to develop a sizeable left-right mismatch asymmetric vibration animal model to reconstruct high stiffness and smooth .....
AbstractPurpose of the report: Necrotizing external otitis (NEO) is a rare infectious disease arising from the external auditory canal. Follow-up of NEO is challenging, as MRI signal abnormalities can persist after adequate antibiotic treatment, and persiste.....
AbstractObjective: To evaluate differences of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with helical tomotherapy in head and neck cancer for two clinical scenarios: irradiation with a small safety margin (SM) and daily imaging, or irradiation with a larger saf.....
AbstractBackground and purpose: There is a significant relationship between radiation dose to the pharyngeal constrictor muscles (PCM) and swallowing dysfunction during chemoradiotherapy of head and neck cancers. We aimed at sparing the pharyngeal constricto.....
AbstractAims: This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of adenoid hypertrophy and sociodemographic variables on the occlusion of children and to compare the findings with that of control subjects.
Material and Method: 100 patients attain the max.....
AbstractIntroduction: KOS represents an innovative non-surgical solution developed at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm (Sweden) which consists of a intranasal stimulation via an air inflated catheter indicated to treat non allergic rhinitis an.....
AbstractTeratomas are embryonal tumours that emerge when totipotent germ cells evades the developmental control of primary organizers and give rise to tumours with tissue from all three blastodermic layers. Adult teratomas of the neck are very uncommon. It o.....
AbstractBackground: Intraoperative consultation with frozen section is an important tool for evaluation of adequate surgical margins. Nevertheless, it is believed that frozen section analysis is less accurate in irradiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) comp.....
AbstractPurpose: In this retrospective we evaluate swallowing dysfunction in patients with an established diagnosed of Zenker’s diverticulum before and after endoscopic treatment using the SWALQOL Questionnaire. Besides, we investigate whether there are c.....
AbstractTraditionally, a scalpel blade number 11 or 15 is used to remove cartilaginous structures in rhinoplasty. However, this step can present some technical difficulty to achieve the exact modification desired; very often we overcorrect, undercorrect or e.....