Abstract: To retrospectively analyze the outcome of patients operated with discectomy and to compare the short-term results to results in the available literature. Materials and method: Patients who underwent discectomy at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Umeå University hospital in Sweden...
Keywords: TMJ; Discectomy; TMD; Symptoms; Short term results
Special Issue Article “Otoacoustic Emissions”
Abstract: Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions (TEOAE) is a validated technique in newborn hearing screening usually used in many countries. It reflects normal hearing or at least no more than 30 dBHL hearing loss. It has false positives when it is done before 24- 48h hours because of the stucked fluid in middle ear...
Keywords: Breastfeeding; Otoacoustic emissions; Newborn hearing screening
Abstract: Tonsillitis is a poorly identified cause of fever in children. This study aimed at determining te sociodemographic features, clinical features and bacteriology of tonsillitis in children in a teaching hospital. Materials and Methods: This was an hospital based, descriptive cross-sectional study of children with tonsillitis...
Keywords: Tonsillitis; Bacteriology; Antibiotics; Otorhinolaryngology; Ekiti
Abstract: The tuberculosis (TB) of the ear is a rare entity. In most cases the presentation resembles that of a chronic otitis media or chronic otitis media with mastoiditis. Irreversible complications such as hearing loss and facial paralysis ensue if the diagnosis is often delayed. In view of its rare incidence, we report a case ...
Keywords: Tuberculosis; Chronic otitis media; Middle ear
Abstract: Thyroglossal duct cyst is the most common congenital neck malformation that occurs due to failure in the closure of the thyroglossal duct. The authors present a case of a 57-year-old caucasian male patient who complained of anterior cervical mass that had been slowly growing for eight years. After further investigation...
Keywords: Thyroglossal Cyst; Neck; Hyoid Bone
Special Issue Article “Auditory Brainstem Response”
Abstract: There is a definite need to better monitor drug-mediated effects on neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, and information processing (feature detection), which includes markers for progression of synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis in ototoxicity screening protocols. The field of otology acknowledges that given...
Keywords: Auditory brainstem response; ABR; Nonhuman primate; Cat; Rat; Guinea pigs; Electrophysiology; Thresholds; Threshold shifts; Normative data
Special Issue Article “Facial Nerve Palsy”
Abstract: With a prevalence between 11 to 53 cases, for every 100,000 people per year, facial paralysis is a disease of multiple possible etiologies, being neural infection by herpes virus simplex type 1 the most common cause, mainly manifested by weakness of facial musculature and loss of sensation. It does not have...
Keywords: Acute facial paralysis; Bell palsy; Facial nerve; Facial paresis; Medical therapy; Idiopathic facial paralysis; Bell’s palsy therapy
Special Issue Article “Menière's Disease”
Abstract: Aim of this study was to investigate the humoral immune responses to wheat antigens and related antibodies in MD patients. Methods: We assessed the reactivity of sera against a repertoire of 51 antigens usually associated with immune reaction to gluten from 28 patients...
Keywords: Gluten; Celiac disease; Antibodies; Ménière’s disease; Vertigo
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