[Intraoperative monitoring with transtympanic electrocochleography].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality of life is extraordinary affected by malignant tumors of the head and neck region as functions of social interaction are disturbed. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The influence of surgical treatment and postoperative radio(chemo)therapy (RCT) on the quality of life was studied in patients with head and neck ...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Bücheler BM,Ehnes A,Kavsadze M,Langenberg S,Wilhelm-Buchstab T,Zipfel M,Keiner S,Gerstner AO

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papilloma viruses (HPV) are responsible for approximately half of all oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCC) and incidence rates of HPV-associated OPSCC continue to increase substantially. The defined viral carcinogenesis permits development of specific diagnostic, therapeutic, and prophylactic approache...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Reuschenbach M,Wagner S,Würdemann N,Sharma SJ,Prigge ES,Sauer M,Wittig A,Wittekindt C,von Knebel Doeberitz M,Klussmann JP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metaanalysis on pharmacological and psychological treatment reports was conducted in order to evaluate the overall effectiveness of these treatment conditions in chronic tinnitus. A totality of 109 treatment studies published between 1976 and 3/1995 and meeting minimal inclusion criteria was located, but only 24 stu...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Schilter B,Jäger B,Heermann R,Lamprecht F

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated 15 patients with unilateral facial paralysis using gadolinium(Gd)-DTPA (diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid) enhanced (magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Eleven were idiopathic and 1 each was due to basal skill trauma, Lyme's disease, Foville's syndrome and herpes zoster oticus. Ten of 11 Bell's palsies...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Doringer E,Albegger K,Sinzinger G,Schmoller HJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As unanimously found in several consensus papers, other conditions such as learning disorders need to be ruled out prior to labelling a child as having an auditory processing disorder (APD). METHODS:In a retrospective study data from 386 children (245 boys, 141 girls) aged 6;0-9;11 years were investigated. ...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Ptok M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cricothyroid muscle is important to the singing voice, in the male in the chest and falsetto registers and in the female in the head register, assisting in production of the highest notes. In speech its contraction only occurs during high pitched speech. It serves as an additional tensor of the vocal cord. ...

journal_title：HNO

authors： van Deinse JB,Frateur L

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case study, we report on a patient complaining of headache who, after CT and MRI, was found to have a neoplasia of the left sphenoid sinus. After a transnasal biopsy and histological examination, a prolactinoma was diagnosed. Based on this case, we discuss important aspects of tumor biology, diagnostic procedu...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Burkert S,Bilkenroth U,Agha-Mir-Salim P,Kunze C,Holzhausen HJ,Fröhlich J,Berghaus A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with CSF-rhinorrhea following frontobasal skull and brain injury were treated with lumbar CSF drainage. Rhinorrhea was successfully stopped in one patient few hours after onset of the drainage while a pneumatocephalus developed in each of the remaining patients during the first post-trauma week. We beli...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Schmitt HE,de Preux J,Spoerri O

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:First line antibiotic treatment of uncomplicated acute otitis media has been questioned. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In an prospective, open, controlled study, 390 children aged 1-10 years were treated either conventionally (free combinations of decongestant nose drops, mucolytics, analgesics and antibiotics) or a...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Wustrow TP

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3 year old child with recurrent pneumococcal meningitis and a congenital cyst of the oval window is presented. An aqueous middle ear effusion was found and scintigraphy demonstrated a middle ear CSF leak. Surgical exploration revealed a cyst originating from the stapes footplate. The origin of this malformation is d...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Lahovary A

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous methods for testing directional hearing are described and a new directional hearing test with a modified artificial head recording system is demonstrated. The new method complies well with natural conditions and allows the possibility of testing different hearing losses. The results of testing in 110 non-exer...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Baschek V

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoserological assays of patients with sudden deafness and progressive hearing losses have revealed the presence of different antibodies, leading to the assumption that immunological processes may be involved. Recent investigations have demonstrated that these patients have phospholipid antibodies that can cause ve...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Heller U,Becker EW,Zenner HP,Berg PA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies are available concerning the treatment of sudden deafness using hyperbaric oxygenation, only a few of these deal with tinnitus. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the therapeutic use of hyperbaric oxygenation in cases of tinnitus. A total of 193 patients, having undergone primary intrav...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Delb W,Muth CM,Hoppe U,Iro H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old male patient demonstrated an existing left proptosis for several weeks. The patient was suffering from physical exhaustion and had lost considerable weight. Furthermore, we observed greatly enlarged parotid and submandibular glands on both sides. MRI of the neck showed multiple, sharply circumscribed les...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Hirt R,Krause U,Knipping S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alongside evidence-based medicine, quality assurance has becoming increasingly important in daily medical practice during the last decade. The introduction of a specific quality assurance questionnaire in connection with hearing aid fitting represents the first large-scale assessment of certain elements of patient sat...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Löhler J,Akcicek B,Wollenberg B,Schönweiler R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with voice disorders after parathyroidectomy without thyroidectomy and paresis of the recurrent nerve. The connection between hypoparathyroidismus and laryngeal tetany is discussed. ...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Böhme G

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During recent decades, the clinical use of botulinum toxin has become increasingly well established. In the field of otorhinolaryngology there are many indications for which botulinum toxin can improve patients' quality of life. These include applications in the region of the head and neck muscles and the autonomic ne...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Laskawi R,Olthoff A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome is a clinical picture with sound and pressure-induced vertigo, autophony, hearing loss and a lowered bone conduction threshold. It is an important differential diagnosis to otosclerosis and patent eustachian tube. Diagnostic investigations include audiometric testing, ny...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Rohrmeier C,Hilber H,Strutz J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic facial palsy (IFP), or Bell's palsy, is an acute peripheral unilateral paresis of the facial nerve with an abrupt onset of unknown origin. Primary infection or reactivation of the Herpes simplex virus is suggested as a possible mechanism in some but not all patients. Since IFP is a diagnosis of exclusion, a...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Grosheva M,Beutner D,Volk GF,Wittekindt C,Guntinas-Lichius O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Electrically evoked compound action potentials (TECAP) of the auditory nerve can be recorded in cochlear implants. TECAP thresholds are used to predict threshold levels for speech processor maps. The auditory nerve's refractory properties can influence these levels. METHODS:Recovery functions were investi...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Morsnowski A,Charasse B,Collet L,Killian M,Müller-Deile J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contaminated medical products may be vectors for infections. A safe disinfection method for the optical instruments used by ENT specialists is undoubtedly needed. So far, a standard method that sufficiently covers the risk of infection for patients and medical staff alike, while serving the need of practicab...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Goessler UR,von Dömming C,Schmidt H,Hörmann K,Stasche N

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1979 and 1986, 74 patients with hypopharyngeal carcinomas were operated using transoral laser microsurgery by the first author. 32 of the patients were subdivided into 5 subgroups and considered separately because of pretreatment for head and neck tumors, simultaneous multiple tumors etc. (excluding criterias)...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Steiner W,Stenglein C,Fietkau R,Sauerbrei W

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of the present study is to identify clinical factors that influence the incidence and the prognosis of local and regional recurrences. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The data of 1,426 patients with newly diagnosed squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract who were treated by curative laser mi...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Jäckel MC,Martin A,Steiner W

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent advances in radiochemotherapy, treatment of locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is still challenging, and survival rates have improved only slightly. This is due to the high frequency of metastases and local and/or regional tumor recurrences that have acquired radio- or chemoresistanc...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Heß AK,Weichert W,Budach V,Tinhofer I

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Systematic research on factors before the provision of hearing aids is scarce. In order to identify parameters which promote or impede the use of hearing aids, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:A total of 35 randomly chosen, hard of hearing adults indicated for a hearing aid we...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Meister H,Lausberg I,von Wedel H,Walger M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease of the cervical spine may cause vestibular vertigo. The anatomical basis for this type of cervical vertigo are the proprioceptive stretch receptors of the upper cervical joints. These are connected to the vestibular nuclei, and, thus, to ocular reactions (nystagmus). Quantitative data about this cervico-ocular...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Reker U

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The megadolichobasilar artery is a rare vascular anomaly that can cause a variety of clinical symptoms but is usually asymptomatic. Not much attention has been given as yet to a possible sensorineural hearing loss caused by a megadolichobasilar anomaly. Vascular compression of the vestibulocochlear nerve must be assum...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Otterstedde CR,Tischendorf M,Reisser C

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A parotid mass in a 62-year-old woman presented intraoperatively as a highly malignant tumor with facial nerve infiltration. Classification by means of rapid section histology was not possible. Immunohistochemical studies were necessary to diagnose this rare case of myoepithelial carcinoma of the parotid gland. We per...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Haubner F,Gassner HG,Eder F,Müller-Vogt U

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of vocabulary depends on the success of rehabilitation in hearing, language and speech. In hearing impaired and deaf children, it is important to select the optimum technical device-hearing aid or cochlear implant. This study was performed on 30 children with hearing aids or cochlear implants using the Test...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Witt G,Landgraf S,Pau HW

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracranial meningiomas are rare tumors of the lateral skull base. A 37-year-old woman presented with tinnitus und progressive hearing loss of her right ear. A painful mass lesion was also palpable in her mandibular angle. CT and MRI scans revealed an intracranial mass with extension to the lateral skull base. These ...

journal_title：HNO

authors： Knipping S,Neumann K,Burkert W,Krause U,Berghaus A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00