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Ear Cotton Buds Forgotten in External Ear Canals

Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2014
Foreign bodies in the external canal of the ear are an emergency problem encountered by the otolaryngologist almost every day. Foreign bodies may cause hearing loss, pain, severe itching, ear discharge, tinnitus and vertigo.
OMER SAÐLAM, Bulent SAAT, Engin DURSUN, Bilal CETIN, Ugur KARAPINAR, Murat SAHAN, Mustafa Gunes, Inci TASCAN   +7 more
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Miniature Soft Robot With Magnetically Reprogrammable Surgical Functions

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Miniature soft robots have great prospects to revolutionize minimally invasive treatments. Here we present a miniature soft robot, which can be reprogrammed to perform five surgical functionalities with six‐degrees‐of‐freedom motions. This soft robot can prospectively make minimally invasive surgery considerably safer and painless, and enable ...
Chelsea Shan Xian Ng, Yu Xuan Yeoh, Nicholas Yong Wei Foo, Keerthana Radhakrishnan, Guo Zhan Lum   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intrinsically Stretchable Piezoelectric Nanocomposites for Artificial Ultrasonic Sensory Synapse

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Applying ultrasonic stimulations to a soft‐stretchable underwater piezoelectric sensor based on the soft‐stretchable nanocomposite from the thermal cross‐linking between the ─C─F group of P(VDF‐TrFE) and the ─NH2 group of (PEG‐diamine) with incorporating amine‐terminated BTO@APTES nanofillers on the soft PDMS substrates generated high piezoelectric ...
Trung Dieu Do, Tran Quang Trung, Priyanuj Bhuyan, Minh Chien Nguyen, Que Thi Nguyen, Namjun Jo, Yeonsu Kim, Thanh Duy Cam Ha, Myung‐Gil Kim, Sungjune Park, Woo Jong Yu, Nae‐Eung Lee   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes of a novel alloplastic technique for external auditory canal repair in tympanomastoidectomy

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2020
Objective To analyze surgical outcomes of a novel alloplastic reconstruction technique for partial external auditory canal (EAC) defects in tympanomastoidectomy.
Karissa L. LeClair, Sarah Y. Bessen, Christiaan A. Rees, James E. Saunders   +3 more
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Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells‐Derived Inner Ear Organoids With Enhanced Maturation and Reproducibility by Micro‐Topographical Cues

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Micro‐topographical cues applied through temporally controlled microscale confinement improve the reproducibility, spatial organization, and neurosensory‐associated features of pluripotent stem cell‐derived inner ear organoids. Integration with a vascularized organoid platform further enables controlled investigation of vascular‐epithelial interactions
Harshita Sharma, Jungeun Lim, Woochan Kim, Yeon Ju Kim, Dream Kim, Shinyull Lee, Chaeyeon Park, Stephen Rhee, Shruthy Kuttapan, Jungho Ha, Sang Wook Park, Kyunghoon Kim, Noo Li Jeon, Sunho Park, Yun‐Hoon Choung, Jangho Kim   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maskless Fabrication of PLA‐Based Neural Arrays for CNS Recording and Stimulation

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Biodegradable neural interfaces enable bidirectional communication with the CNS. Through electrochemical characterization, ageing tests with impedance monitoring, and in vivo validation, we assess the performance of PLA‐based epicortical and spinal implants.
Anna De Salvo, Federica Velluto, Ilenia Sergi, Michele Di Lauro, Verónica Barranco‐Maresca, Elena Alonso‐Calviño, Yasmina Hernández‐Martín, Juan Aguilar, Juliana M. Rosa, María C. Serrano, Carolina Giulia Ferroni, Federico Rondelli, Elisa López‐Dolado, Luciano Fadiga, Fabio Biscarini   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Imaging‐Guided, Patient‐Specific Guiding Aid (RWNGuide) for Safe and Reproducible Inner Ear Drug Delivery

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A patient‐specific, imaging‐guided aid enables precise and reproducible drug delivery to the inner ear. By guiding therapeutic agents directly to the round window niche, this approach reduces variability in drug localization, improves delivery safety, and addresses a critical bottleneck in inner ear therapy, offering a scalable strategy for precision ...
Yanjing Luo, Shanshan Jiang, Yimian Luo, Adele Moatti, Farnaz Matin‐Mann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fabrication of Fibers With Complex Features Using Thermal Drawing of 3D‐Printed Preforms

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
3D printing enables rapid fabrication of macroscale polymer preforms with complex geometries. Thermal drawing then scales these structures into long fibers while preserving micron‐scale cross‐sectional features. This workflow provides a fast, low‐cost route to functional fibers with tailored geometries and material combinations for catheter, robotic ...
Ali Anil Demircali, Jinshi Zhao, Ayhan Aktas, Mohamed E. M. K. Abdelaziz, Burak Temelkuran   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A rare case of external ear canal stenosis caused by COVID-19-related arterial thrombosis

Ear, Nose & Throat Journal
Thrombosis is a characteristic symptom of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Here, we present a case of external ear stenosis caused by arterial thrombosis after COVID-19 infection. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of external ear
Makoto Hosoya MD, PhD, Ayumi Minami MD, Takanori Nishiyama MD, PhD, Nobuyoshi Tsuzuki MD, Takeshi Wakabayashi MD, Naoki Oishi MD, PhD   +5 more
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UCST‐Driven Shape Morphing in Digital Light Processing 4D‐Printed Hydrogels

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A DLP‐printable UCST hydrogel based on poly(acrylic acid‐co‐acrylamide) enables reversible thermally induced expansion and 4D shape morphing. Rational control of composition, porosity, and multimaterial architecture enables predictable 4D shape morphing through differential swelling and localized actuation, opening new opportunities for high‐resolution
Fato Niang, Vincent Lapinte, Sebastien Blanquer   +2 more
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