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Ear, nose and throat injuries at Bugando Medical Centre in northwestern Tanzania: a five-year prospective review of 456 cases. [PDF]

, 2013
Injuries to the ear, nose and throat (ENT) regions are not uncommon in clinical practice and constitute a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in our setting. There is dearth of literature on this subject in our environment.
BC Okoye, BC Okoye, Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), D Trunkey Donald, EG Kang, FT Orji, I Matilda, I Matilda, I Singh, Japhet M Gilyoma, JM Gilyoma, LC Synders, M Liberman, OA Sogebi, Phillipo L Chalya, RK Arif, RK Arif, RR Figueriedo, S Endican, SK Aremu, SM Mutooro   +20 more
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Potential Biomarkers for Disease Stratification and Prognosis Prediction in Pediatric Asthma: LCN2, sST2 and FGF21

The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric asthma is a common chronic airway inflammatory disease, where accurate assessment of disease severity and prognosis prediction is crucial for treatment decisions. Currently, there is a lack of precise and effective biomarkers.
Xu Yang, Hai Wang, Yong‐Zheng Zhang, Yan‐Yan Chen, Xin‐Xin Xing, Yi‐Cheng Ding   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marble impaction in the nasopharynx following oral ingestion [PDF]

, 2018
Foreign body ingestion is an important emergency occurring in childhood. In this article, we report the case of a 5-year-old girl with marble impaction in the nasopharynx, which had not been discovered by routine X-rays of the chest and abdomen at the ...
Külekçi, Mehmet, Oysu, Cagatay, Sahin, A., Yilmaz, H.   +3 more
core  

From Expectations to Experience: A Comparison of Program Director Priorities to Resident Case Logs

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
The present study identified 47 essential otolaryngology procedures via program director surveys and evaluated the extent of resident participation in these cases through ACGME case logs. Results revealed significant variability in surgical experience, with nearly half of these essential procedures being logged fewer than 10 times during residency ...
Taylor S. Erickson, Yoon Soo Park, Sean Hogan, Sophie Yu, Steven D. Pletcher, Sonya Malekzadeh, Stacey T. Gray, Jenny X. Chen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Foreign Body Airway Obstruction with Magill Forceps: A Case Report

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Foreign body airway obstruction is a high-stakes airway emergency that can rapidly become fatal without timely intervention. Case Report: We present a case of a 65-year-old male in respiratory extremis due to aspiration of a chicken bone ...
Ossama Sayed, Samuel Garcia, Benjamin J. Sandefur   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Buried oropharyngeal metal mesh foreign bodies in an infant

Otolaryngology Case Reports, 2021
Airway foreign bodies are a medical emergency in children, as airway obstruction results in immediate respiratory distress. Common ingested foreign bodies differ among children from different social backgrounds, and metal foreign bodies, such as pins ...
Shotaro Koizumi, Jun Suzuki, Yohei Honkura, Kenichi Watanabe, Yukio Katori   +4 more
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Patient‐Reported Outcomes of Palatopharyngeal Surgery Without Tonsillectomy: A Meta‐Analysis

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
Palatopharyngeal surgery without tonsillectomy leads to clinically meaningful improvements in daytime sleepiness and snoring, but patient‐reported outcomes vary markedly by surgical technique. Suture‐based procedures, muscle relocation, cold‐steel approaches, and powered instruments show the largest and durable benefits, with no evidence of effect ...
Samuel Tschopp, Flora Meinert, Georgios Mantokoudis, Marco Caversaccio, Urs Borner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

In emergency situations, tracheal intubation replaces fiberoptic bronchoscopy to extract foreign bodies from the airway, a case report

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Introduction: Foreign bodies in the airways can cause significant morbidity and mortality. If emergency personnel are unable to clear an airway obstruction frequently results in cardiac arrest.
Yingying Wang, Liqun Zhu, Hairong Yong, Xiaohong Lv, Binbin Qian, Zihan Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nasal Foreign Body, Dislodged and Lost – Can the Adenoids Help? [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Foreign body in the nasal cavity is one of the most common paediatric otolaryngology emergencies and needs to be promptly addressed. The incidence of nasal foreign body getting dislodged secondary to unsuccessful attempts to take it out is quite high ...
Arijit Jotdar, Mainak Dutta, Subrata Mukhopadhyay   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign Body In Airways

JMS SKIMS, 2014
A 13 year old girl presented with history of foreign body (metallic pin) inhalation/ingestion the day before, which was associated with an episode of choking and cough. Patient was asymptomatic at the time of presentation and had no relevant finding on chest examination and I/L examination.
Mudasir Ul Islam, Rafiq Pampori, Aleena Jallu, Manzoor Latoo   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources