Primary Laryngeal Aspergillosis in the Immunocompetent Patient
Introduction Fungal infections of the larynx are truly rare in immunocompetent people with only a handful of cases reported in the past five decades.
TC Vikram Raj Mohanam+6 more
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Dysphagia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: impact on patient behavior, diet adaptation, and riluzole management [PDF]
This retrospective study aimed to investigate the clinical features associated with deteriorated swallow in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients with spinal and bulbar onset, describe the modification of diet and liquid intake, and assess the ...
CAMBIERI, CHIARA+7 more
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Gender, Smoking History and Age Prediction from Laryngeal Images [PDF]
Flexible laryngoscopy is commonly performed by otolaryngologists to detect laryngeal diseases and to recognize potentially malignant lesions. Recently, researchers have introduced machine learning techniques to facilitate automated diagnosis using laryngeal images and achieved promising results.
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A Unique Cause of Upper Airway Obstruction in a Child: Laryngeal Lipoma
There are lots of diseases causing pediatric upper airway obstruction and stridor. They can be both congenital or acquired. While congenital causes are laryngomalacia, vocal cord palsy, congenital subglottic stenosis, acquired ones range from infections ...
Kerem Kökoğlu, İbrahim Ketenci
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Laryngeal Preservation Strategies in Locally Advanced Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancers. [PDF]
For long, the treatment of locoregionally advanced laryngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell cancers (SCC) consisted of either total laryngectomy (TL) or definitive radiotherapy (RT).
Argiris, Athanassios+1 more
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Bilateral Laryngocele Causing Epiglottic Deformity and Upper Airway Obstruction
Laryngocele is the cystic dilatation of laryngeal ventricle. Most cases are asymptomatic and incidentally diagnosed in radiologic examinations. Although the etiology is unclear, obstruction, laryngeal pressure, congenital defects are possible risk ...
İrfan Kara+3 more
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An autopsy study of a familial oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) with distal spread and neurogenic involvement [PDF]
An 81-year-old man from a family with a history of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) involving 6 members over 4 generations is described. The patient first noted drooping of his eyelids at the age of 65.
Aarli+49 more
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Multi-class Detection of Pathological Speech with Latent Features: How does it perform on unseen data? [PDF]
The detection of pathologies from speech features is usually defined as a binary classification task with one class representing a specific pathology and the other class representing healthy speech. In this work, we train neural networks, large margin classifiers, and tree boosting machines to distinguish between four pathologies: Parkinson's disease ...
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The ideal approach for the treatment of glottal insufficiency remains a challenge for laryngologists. AIM: This experimental study assessed the histological changes and fibrosis caused by autologous fascia lata grafts into the rabbit voice muscle.
Bruno de Rezende Pinna+3 more
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Performance of OpenBCI EEG Binary Intent Classification with Laryngeal Imagery [PDF]
One of the greatest goals of neuroscience in recent decades has been to rehabilitate individuals who no longer have a functional relationship between their mind and their body. Although neuroscience has produced technologies which allow the brains of paralyzed patients to accomplish tasks such as spell words or control a motorized wheelchair, these ...
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