EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTSFREE This Month in Laryngoscope.Jonas T. Johnson, MD
EDITORIALMedical Publishing and the Peer Review System.Jonas T. Johnson, MD
ALLERGYRole of Local Immunoglobulin E Specific for Alternaria alternata in the Pathogenesis of Nasal Polyposis.Albert Sabirov, MD, PhD; Robert G. Hamilton, PhD; Joseph B. Jacobs, MD; Dean E. Hillman, PhD; Richard A. Lebowitz, MD; Joe D. Watts, MD
CRANIAL BASE Correction of Progressive Hearing Loss in Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome.Eric P. Wilkinson, MD; Gene C. Liu, MD; Rick A. Friedman, MD, PhDSuperior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SSCDS) results in vertigo and conductive hearing loss. Sound-induced vertigo is classically encountered. Dr. Wilkinson and colleagues report a patient with Tullio phenomenon, exercise-induced vertigo, and progressive mixed-hearing loss. A computed tomography (CT) demonstrated dehiscence of the superior semicircular canal. Middle fossa craniotomy allowed repair of the dehiscence. The patient experienced improvement in both bone and air conduction thresholds and immediate resolution of vertigo.
DYSPHAGIA The Effect of Surface Electrical Stimulation on Vocal Fold Position.Ianessa A. Humbert, PhD; Christopher J. Poletto, PhD; Keith G. Saxon, MD; Pamela R. Kearney, MD; Christy L. Ludlow, PhD
FACIAL PLASTICS/RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERYStatic Facial Suspension With Surgisis ES (Enhanced Strength) Sling.Douglas D. Leventhal, MD; Edmund A. Pribitkin, MD HEAD AND NECKCandidate's Thesis Gustatory Impairment in Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Irradiation.Natasha Mirza, MD; Mitchell Machtay, MD; Pamela A. Devine, MSN, RN; Andrea Troxel, ScD; Soo K. Abboud, MD; Richard L. Doty, PhDIrradiation therapy impairs taste. Dr. Mirza and colleagues report a prospective evaluation of patients undergoing external beam radiation of the oral cavity. A validated assessment of taste was accomplished before and after therapy. Patients undergoing irradiation to other parts of the body served as controls. Head and neck cancer patients demonstrated decreased ability to identify bitter, sour and salt prior to therapy. Sour taste was highly susceptible to radiation, while sweet taste appeared the most robust. Two months after radiation some recovery was observed. Most taste had recovered at six months posttreatment, however bitter taste remained impaired. HEAD AND NECKClinical Features and Outcome of the Tall Cell Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.Alex Kwok-Cheung Leung, MBBS; Sin-Ming Chow, MBBS, FRCR; Stephen C. K. Law, MBBS, FRCRTall cell variant (TCV) of papillary thyroid cancer is a relatively unusual but virulent form of papillary thyroid cancer. Patients so afflicted comprise 4%-12% of papillary thyroid cancer. Patients with TCV had a higher rate of extra thyroidal extension, tracheal invasion and carotid artery invasion. As a group, the patients are older and the mean tumor size is larger. Disease related mortality of TCV was 42.9% compared to only 7% in the entire cohort with papillary thyroid cancer. This study emphasizes the need to identify the patient population, and the need for improved therapeutic interventions. FREE Pretreatment Swallowing Exercises Improve Swallow Function After Chemoradiation.William R. Carroll, MD; Julie L. Locher, PhD; Cheri L. Canon, MD; Isaac A. Bohannon, MD; Nancy L. McColloch, CCC-SLP; J Scott Magnuson, MDDysphagia is a common sequela of chemoradiation therapy (CRT). Dr. Carroll and colleagues report a retrospective case control study of 18 patients scheduled for CRT. Patients were divided into two groups matched by cancer site, stage, and treatment. Pretreatment swallowing exercises were provided to one group while the control underwent only posttreatment swallowing exercises. Three months after completion of treatment, patients were assessed. This study provides evidence that pretreatment swallowing exercises do improve posttreatment function.
Endoscopic Anatomy of the Pterygopalatine Fossa and the Transpterygoid Approach: Development of a Surgical Instruction Model.Felipe S. G. Fortes, MD; Luis U. Sennes, MD, PhD; Ricardo L. Carrau, MD; Rubens Brito, MD, PhD; Guilherme C. Ribas, MD, PhD; Alexandre Yasuda, MD, PhD; Aldo J. Rodrigues Jr, MD, PhD; Carl H. Snyderman, MD; Amin B. Kassam, MD High Incidence of Malignant Transformation of Laryngeal Papilloma in Taiwan.Li-Ang Lee, MD; Ann-Joy Cheng, PhD; Tuan-Jen Fang, MD; Chung-Guei Huang, MSc; Chun-Ta Liao, MD; Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang, MD; Hsueh-Yu Li, MD Potential Structures That Could Be Confused With a Nonrecurrent Inferior Laryngeal Nerve: An Anatomic Study.Eva Maranillo, MD; Teresa Vazquez, MD; Miquel Quer, MD; Marc Rodriguez Niedenführ, MD; Xavier Leon, MD; Fermin Viejo, MD; Ian Parkin, MD; Jose R. Sanudo, MD
Differential Capture of Serum Proteins for Expression Profiling and Biomarker Discovery in Pre- and Posttreatment Head and Neck Cancer Samples.Gary L. Freed, MD; Lisa H. Cazares, BS; Craig E. Fichandler, MD; Thomas W. Fuller, BS; Christopher A. Sawyer, MS; Brendan C. Stack Jr, MD; Scott Schraff, MD; O John Semmes, PhD; J Trad Wadsworth, MD; Richard R. Drake, PhD Feasibility of Flap Reconstruction in Conjunction With Intraoperative Radiation Therapy for Advanced and Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer.Michael D. Most, MD; Alexander C. Allori, MD; Kenneth Hu, MD; Mark L. Urken, MD; Mark S. Persky, MD; Roy B. Sessions, MD; Moses Nussbaum, MD; Louis B. Harrison, MD; Douglas K. Frank, MD; Mark L. Smith, MD
Benign Calcified Thyroid Cyst With Skin Sinus Formation.Indranil Pal, MS; Subhabrata Sengupta, MS; Balakrishnan Ramaswamy, MS, DNB; Somnath Saha, MS
MOLECULAR BIOLOGYA New Model of Laryngitis: Neuropeptide, Cyclooxygenase, and Cytokine Profile.Manuel Lima-Rodrigues, MD; Ana Valle-Fernandes, BSc; Nuno Lamas; Andrea Cruz, PhD; Fátima Baltazar, PhD; Fernanda Milanezi, MD, MSc; Rui Nunes, MD, PhD; Rui M. Reis, PhD; Jorge Pedrosa, PhD; António G. Castro, PhD; Armando Almeida, PhD
OTOLOGY p75NTR and Sortilin Increase After Facial Nerve Injury.Matthew J. Provenzano, MD; Ningyong Xu, BS; Mark R. Ver Meer; J Jason Clark, MS; Marlan R. Hansen, MD Transforming Growth Factor [beta] and Wound Healing in Human Cholesteatoma.Margriet A. Huisman, PhD; Emile de Heer, PhD; Peter Ten Dijke, PhD; Jan J. Grote, PhD, MD Tactile Dysgeusia: A New Clinical Observation of Middle Ear and Skull Base Surgery.Joseph M. Chen, MD, FRCSC; Daniel Bodmer, MD, PhD; Justin D. Khetani, MD; Vincent V. Y. Lin, MD, FRCSC Active Noise Reduction Audiometry: A Prospective Analysis of a New Approach to Noise Management in Audiometric Testing.Matthew A. Bromwich, MD; Vijay Parsa, PhD; Nicole Lanthier, MA; John Yoo, MD, FRCPS(c); Lorne S. Parnes, MD, FRCPS(c) The Malleus-Stapes Offset.N Wendell Todd, MD, MPH, FACS, FAAP Cochlear Implantation in Organ Transplantation.D Michael Patterson, MD; Fred F. Telischi, MEE, MD; Sarah S. Connell, MD; S Arif Ulubil, MD; Annelle V. Hodges, PhD; Adrien A. Eshraghi, MD; Thomas J. Balkany, MD
PEDIATRIC AIRWAYResolving Feeding Difficulties With Early Airway Intervention in Pierre Robin Sequence.Michael E. Lidsky, MD; Timothy A. Lander, MD; James D. Sidman, MD PEDIATRIC AIRWAY -How I Do It Transhyoid Approach to Excision of Recurrent Vallecular Pseudocysts.Shelby Leuin, MD; Michael Cunningham, MD; Mark S. Volk, MD, DMD; Christopher Hartnick, MD, MS EPI
PEDIATRIC EARS/OTOLOGY Characterization of Mucosal Biofilms on Human Adenoid Tissues.Romain E. Kania, MD, PhD; Gerda E. M. Lamers; Marcel J. Vonk; Esmee Dorpmans, MSC; Joyce Struik, MSC; Patrice Tran Huy, Ba MD; Pieter Hiemstra, PhD; Guido V. Bloemberg, PhD; Jan J. Grote, MD, PhD
QUALITY OF LIFEThe Influence of Olfactory Loss on Dietary Behaviors.Katja Aschenbrenner, MD; Cornelia Hummel, MD; Katja Teszmer; Franziska Krone; Tadashi Ishimaru, MD; Han-Seok Seo, PhD; Thomas Hummel, MD, PhD Localization by Postlingually Deafened Adults Fitted With a Single Cochlear Implant.D Wesley Grantham, PhD; Todd A. Ricketts, PhD; Daniel H. Ashmead, PhD; Robert F. Labadie, MD, PhD; David S. Haynes, MD
SINONASALResponses to Trigeminal Irritants at Different Locations of the Human Nasal Mucosa.Mandy Scheibe, MD; Christoph van Thriel; Thomas Hummel, MD, PhD Severe Posterior Epistaxis-Endoscopic Surgical Anatomy.Francini G. M. Pádua, MD; Richard L. Voegels, MD
SINONASAL -How I Do It 162 Endoscopic Drainage of a Superiorly Based Subperiosteal Orbital Abscess.Renato Roithmann, MD, PhD; Brent Uren, FRACS; John Pater, FRANZCO; Peter-John Wormald, MD, FRACS, FCS(SA), FRCS HTML PDF (701 K)
STATISTICSUtility of History and Physical Updates for Ambulatory Otolaryngic Surgery.Scott L. Lee, MD; Salvatore Taliercio, MSIV; Ashar Ata, MBBS, MPH; Jessica Clayton, MD; Steven M. Parnes, MD
VESTIBULARCompensative Shuttling of Merlin to Phosphorylation on Serine 518 in Vestibular Schwannoma.Jingrong Lü, MD; Jing Zou, MD, PhD; Hao Wu, MD, PhD; Lihui Cai, MD
Evaluation of a Particle Repositioning Maneuver Web-Based Teaching Module.Jason Atkins Beyea, PhD; Eric Wong, MD, CCFP; Matthew Bromwich, MD, FRCS(C); W Wayne Weston, MD, CCFP, FCFP; Kevin Fung, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
VOICEDaniel C. Baker, Jr. Lecture 181 Educational and Research Horizons in Laryngology.Gerald Berke, MD (ArticlePlus) Preparation Techniques for the Injection of Human Autologous Cartilage: An Ex Vivo Feasibility Study.J Pieter Noordzij, MD; Justin M. Cates, MD, PhD; Seth M. Cohen, MD, MPH; Marc L. Bennett, MD; W M. Russell Ries, MD; Paul T. Russell, MD; David Haynes, MD; C Gaelyn Garrett, MD; Robert H. Ossoff, DMD, MD LETTERS TO THE EDITORIn reference to Thyroid Surgery: Changing Patterns of Practice and Emerging Trends in the Performance of Parathyroid Surgery.Luc G. T. Morris In reference to Thyroid Surgery: Changing Patterns of Practice and Emerging Trends in the Performance of Parathyroid Surgery.David J. Terris, MD, FACS BOOK REVIEWSOtolaryngology: A Surgical Notebook.H Peter Doble II, MD, FACS HTML Surgery of the Auricle: Tumors-Trauma-Defects-Abnormalities.Robert Forrest Yellon, MD
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