Frequency of serious complications after surgery for snoring and sleep apnea.

abstract：CONCLUSION:Transforming growth factor β1 gene (TGFβ1) genotype is a potential p16 independent prognostic factor predicting response to chemoradiotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). OBJECTIVES:Expression of p16 and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been reported to be associated with sur...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Lundberg M,Leivo I,Saarilahti K,Mäkitie AA,Mattila PS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:Cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzyme would not appear to be constitutively expressed in human perilymph while it is always induced in the perilymph of patients affected by sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). The COX-2 isoform may be involved in hearing loss and, therefore, pathological states of the inner ear sh...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Attanasio G,Viccaro M,Covelli E,De seta E,Minni A,Pizzoli F,Filipo R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:The procedure cleared the lesion completely and preserved the physiological function of the external auditory canal. OBJECTIVE:To develop a novel surgical procedure to treat chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM). To explore the merit of using pedicled temporalis myofascia (PTM) and reconstruction of the ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Yu F

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The graviceptive otolith function can be measured using subjective visual horizontal (SVH) testing. Nevertheless, more research efforts are required to understand the essential variables affecting SVH. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of type of visual image and gender on ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Zakaria MN,Tahir A,Zainun Z,Salim R,Mohd Sakeri NS,Abdul Wahat NH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sound conduction method for measurement of the Eustachian tube opening has been studied and modifications made in the test procedure to increase its easy performance and reliability. By holding the sound source near to the nostril, mounting the microphone into a circumaural ear defender and by feeding the output o...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Virtanen H

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:A man-made bone tunnel of 1.5 turns around the modiolus can be created in cases of total cochlear ossification. Patients with ossified cochlea types I and II achieved satisfactory hearing results after cochlear implantation (CI). Patients with ossified cochlea type III, in which the modiolus is damaged by th...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Wang L,Zhang D

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:Partial deafness cochlear implantation (PDCI) is a feasible means of treating individuals who have good low frequency hearing, but a severe to profound hearing loss in the mid to high frequencies. The individuals have benefit in noise and show significant benefit in a number of difficult listening conditions...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Skarzynski H,Lorens A,Piotrowska A,Anderson I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that long-term exposure to glutamate (Glu) induced death of cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs). However, the mechanisms of OHC death induced by Glu were unclear. In the central nervous system, Glu is known to interfere with a cystine-Glu antiporter, leading to a decrease in cystine uptake and redu...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Sunami K,Yamane H,Takayama M,Nakagawa T,Konishi K,Iguchi H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ABO blood group status may be a risk factor for some diseases, including hearing loss. Individuals with blood group O show a higher prevalence of hearing loss after industrial noise exposure. Group O individuals with normal hearing show reduced amplitudes in otoacoustic emission recordings. Whether blood gro...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Yang Y,Hood LJ,McPherson B

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantitatively analyze modifications of the paratubal muscles in developing Wistar rats following nasal obstruction. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Twenty-four Wistar rats were used. Twelve were examined at 6, 8 and 12 weeks after birth and were considered normal controls. The nostrils of the remaining 12 rats were...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Scarano E,Fetoni AR,Picciotti P,Cadoni G,Galli J,Paludetti G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Abstract Conclusions: In survival analysis, the combined Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) can be considered as a prognostic factor independent of the tumor node metastasis (TNM) classification, tumor stage, and tumor location. Severe comorbidity was the factor that had the greatest impact on prognosis in cas...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Gimeno-Hernández J,Iglesias-Moreno MC,Gómez-Serrano M,Carricondo F,Gil-Loyzaga P,Poch-Broto J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the nasal cavity is a disease more likely to affect men than women; it is characterized by a T cell immunophenotype and is often associated with involvement of the paranasal structures and with high recurrence rates. Many authors report that its extremely poor prognosis depends on tum...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Cavalot AL,Ricci E,Nazionale G,Palonta F,Fadda GL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental use of jejunal free grafts with microvascular anastomosis in the head and neck region has been reported in pharyngeal and esophageal reconstruction. Lack of a suitable animal model has limited basic research for cutaneous or myocutaneous microvascular techniques. This investigation upon appropriate gr...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Duncavage JA,Feider DE,Hobbs JD,Toohill RJ

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was carried out to objectively quantificate the most important predictive factors in idiopathic facial paralysis (Bell's palsy). Stepwise discriminant analysis was applied to data prospectively obtained from 570 patients with Bell's palsy treated at the ENT Department of La Paz Hospital between Jan...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Gavilán C,Gavilán J,Rashad M,Gavilán M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:The average recovery of hearing and cessation of tinnitus was significantly better after treatment with Radix Astragali (RA) than after non-treatment with RA. RA can be valuable adjuvant therapy for patients with acute acoustic trauma (AAT). OBJECTIVES:AAT is one of the early indications for the use of RA. ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Xiong M,He Q,Lai H,Huang W,Wang L,Yang C,Wang J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of hearing handicap is frequently based on hearing loss in the frequency region from 0.5 to 2.0 kHz. The region above 2 kHz, however, is important for hearing, particularly when one considers speech perception in conditions with ambient noise. The present study, based on 200 individuals (400 ears) with nois...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Smoorenburg GF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old woman presented with a 10-year history of swelling of the left cheek during and after meals. She regularly pushed the cheek hard to decrease the swelling by excreting the saliva. She did not have pain or fever. She also complained of bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Shimada T,Okano H,Hisa Y

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author has proved experimentally (in two dogs) that there is reflex hypertonia of the tensor palati muscle, synchronous with the 'shortening' reaction of the tensor tympani muscle in response to its "static" relaxation during the gradual passive inward displacement of the drum resulting from the negative intratymp...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Misurya VK

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a large animal model for studies of laryngeal abductor reinnervation. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Six minipigs underwent unilateral anastomosis of the phrenic nerve-abductor branch of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) conduits were used for repair. At each of 30, 60 and 120 d...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Birchall M,Idowu B,Murison P,Jones A,Burt R,Ayling S,Stokes C,Pope L,Terenghi G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascularization between vestibular schwannomas and the adjacent eighth cranial nerve was examined in order to elucidate the angiogenic effect of these tumours. Specimens from 12 patients were examined by light microscopy and immunohistochemistry (series 1), while specimens from another 17 patients were examined by lig...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Matsunaga T,Kanzaki J,Hosoda Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:Extensive bone erosion correlated with a worse prognosis of the squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the temporal bone but extensive soft tissue involvement did not correlate with prognosis in this study. Resectability of the tumor seems to be major prognostic factor of temporal bone SCC. OBJECTIVE:Prognostic f...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Ito M,Hatano M,Yoshizaki T

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:It has been shown that TRPMs may play a functional role in sensory cell physiology, fluid homeostasis, sensory cell death, and thermosensation in the inner ear, while TRPA1 plays an important role in sensory transduction. OBJECTIVE:To study expression of TRPM1-8 and TRPA1 in the mouse inner ear. MATERIALS...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Takumida M,Ishibashi T,Hamamoto T,Hirakawa K,Anniko M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopy is needed for reliable evaluation of the treatment of nasal polyposis. In this study, we compared the reproducibility of various score systems for staging nasal polyposis and the inter-individual variations between investigators. The mass of the polyps was assessed by five methods, three new techniques (numb...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Johansson L,Akerlund A,Holmberg K,Melén I,Stierna P,Bende M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:The intra-tumoral cytokines IL-6, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and tumour necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) stimulate oral cancer cells to enhanced secretion of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1 and -9. These results contribute to an understanding of the extracellular events necessary for tumour progression. OBJE...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Sundelin K,Roberg K,Grénman R,Håkansson L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred patients subjected to tonsillectomy because of recurrent acute tonsillitis or tonsillar hypertrophy were evaluated bacteriologically both with ordinary throat culturing and cultures from tonsillar cores. In 26% of the patients H. influenzae was isolated and in 20% beta-haemolytic group A streptococci. Grow...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Stjernquist-Desatnik A,Prellner K,Schalén C

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common cause of seasonal allergic rhinitis in Japan is the Japanese cedar (JC). Recently, a pullulan-conjugated antigen (CS-560) has been developed to reduce adverse effects and to enhance the effect of JC-specific immunotherapy (IT). If the mechanism of IT can be fully elucidated and the treatment can be use...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Nakano A,Nakano K,Okawa T,Yamakoshi T,Terada N,Numata T,Konno A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By a careful ENT and oral examination of 111 patients with suspected chronic maxillary sinusitis, the diagnosis was verified in only 56% (62/111). In 29 of these 62 patients (47%) a relation to dental infections was found, periodontitis being as frequent as apical granulomas. In 61% of the patients, in whom the diagn...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Lindahl L,Melén I,Ekedahl C,Holm SE

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:We used a feedback method, based on a blood pressure manometer with inflatable cuff, to control the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) contraction. To obtain comparable left-right VEMP responses, it is necessary (1) to determine which cuff pressures on both sides yield identical mean rectified voltage (MRV) v...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Vanspauwen R,Wuyts FL,Van De Heyning PH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:The study showed that surgery in the maxillary sinus can affect its development. OBJECTIVE:To quantitatively evaluate the long-term impact of sinus surgery on its development in the rabbit. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This was an experimental study performed at an academic tertiary medical center using 20 4-week...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Bahadir O,Bahadir A,Kosucu P,Livaoglu M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:Early intervention may change the natural course of allergic rhinitis, preventing the progression to asthma. In particular, immunotherapy guarantees remission of local symptoms and valid protection against local and bronchial complications. Symptomatic treatment represents a valid alternative; it is always t...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Passali GC,Bellussi LM,De Corso E,Passali FM,Passali D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00