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Gold Laser Cricopharyngeal Myectomy for Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.Endoscopic treatment for cricopharyngeal bar with or without diverticulum has become the preferred option in management. However, critics cite high recurrence rates. This study evaluated a modified endoscopic approach of cricopharyngeal myectomy, removing a block of tissue with a Gold laser, to treat 84 patients with CP bar, demonstrating significantly
Jacqui Allen +4 more
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Pharyngeal webs in a patient with dysphagia and Behcet's disease [PDF]
Endoscopy, 2012 Marios Efthymiou +2 more
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The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.This study evaluates how TORS, with or without adjuvant treatment, impacts swallowing and weight loss. Adjuvant treatment following TORS is associated with significantly greater long‐term weight loss but does not significantly alter swallowing outcomes. Longer duration of nasogastric tube dependence in the postoperative period is associated with higher
Vera Bzhilyanskaya +4 more
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Porous polyethylene in reconstructive head and neck surgery [PDF]
, 1985 Berghaus, Alexander
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A defect in early myogenesis causes Otitis media in two mouse models of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome [PDF]
, 2014 Otitis media (OM), the inflammation of the middle ear, is the most common disease and cause for surgery in infants worldwide. Chronic Otitis media with effusion (OME) often leads to conductive hearing loss and is a common feature of a number of ...
Baldini, A +3 more
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Pill Shape Determines Esophageal Transit Times—A Pill‐to‐Pill Study
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.Shape of pills differ, affecting how easy it is to swallow them. We compared esophageal transit times of a round pill with an oval pill demonstrating in both healthy and symptomatic adults, that the oval pill demonstrated a significantly shorter transit time.
Jacqui Allen, Georgia MacKay, Anna Miles
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Prevalence of Esophageal Webs in Patients Undergoing Direct Laryngoscopy
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.PES webs may be more common than what is traditionally cited in the literature. The prevalence of PES webs in this retrospective cohort study was found to be 34%. Webs may be more likely in patients with a history of irradiation to the head and neck, and only one‐third of patients with a PES web in our cohort had dysphagia symptoms.
Zao M. Yang +5 more
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Creation of a 13-Item Bedside Dysphagia Screening Test [PDF]
, 2011 Dysphagia is a common problem that affects people with many health conditions and that can have serious complications. Various dysphagia screening tests exist; however, their creation was associated with certain weaknesses, e.g.
Ehler, Edvard +3 more
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Postoperative Fluoroscopic Appearance After Flexible Endoscopic Zenker's Diverticulotomy
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.We perform a retrospective study on patients undergoing flexible Zenker's diverticulotomy surgery and report changes in the objective fluoroscopic appearance as well as patient‐reported outcome measures. ABSTRACT Objective Flexible approach to treating Zenker's diverticulum (ZD) has gained traction in recent years. However, objective measures comparing
Shumon I. Dhar +7 more
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