Allergen-induced specific and non-specific nasal reactions. Reciprocal relationship and inhibition by topical glucocorticosteroids.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine factors influencing help-seeking behaviour in hearing-impaired persons aged > or = 55 years MATERIAL AND METHODS:The study comprised 1,419 persons (480 females, 939 males) aged > or = 55 years who participated voluntarily in a driving test. Pure-tone audiometry was performed in all subjects. Par...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Duijvestijn JA,Anteunis LJ,Hoek CJ,Van Den Brink RH,Chenault MN,Manni JJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular pattern of the rat cochlea was demonstrated by the aid of Berlin Blue (Prussian Blue) contrast. The vascular anatomy is similar to other mammals. The infrequent occurrence of the vessel of the basilar membrane under the organ of Corti is interesting in respect to its presumed importance for the oxygen sup...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Hornstrand C,Axelsson A,Vertes D

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Usage of the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) with round window (RW)-Coupler placement at the RW has been shown to successfully treat mixed hearing loss. Coupling between the VSB's floating mass transducer (FMT) and the RW membrane is difficult in the case of sclerosis in the RW and drilling down the bony lip unti...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Iwasaki S,Suzuki H,Moteki H,Miyagawa M,Takumi Y,Usami S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:The amendments made to pre-existing transcanal approaches limit the possibility of extrusion of the electrode and reduce the time of 'blind' surgery. OBJECTIVE:Alternative techniques to classic mastoidectomy and posterior tympanotomy for cochlear implantation have already been described but their main drawb...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Guevara N,Bailleux S,Santini J,Castillo L,Gahide I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal polyps is a chronic inflammatory disease of the upper airway characterized by structural abnormalities including stromal fibrosis. Fibroblasts are a rich source of cytokines and inflammatory mediators and are thought to play an important role in the development of fibrosis. In addition, there is considerable evi...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Nonaka M,Pawankar R,Saji F,Yagi T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal mucosa and the autonomic nervous regulation of protective reflexes plays an important role for the protection of the lower airways. Increasing experimental evidence from both animal models and humans suggests that the organization of the autonomic nervous pathways is more complicated than previously assumed....

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Anggård A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the postoperative conditions of ears and the hearing acuity of patients who underwent posterior canal wall reconstruction tympanoplasty for operated ears with open mastoid. The study included 118 ears of 105 patients (57 males, 48 females; age range 5-75 years) and the patients were followed for > 1 ye...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Sasaki Y,Iino Y,Suzuki J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopsy samples from the maxillary sinus mucosa of patients with purulent, non-purulent and recurrent sinusitis were studied histologically and compared with those from a maxillary sinus of patients with no previous history of sinus disease on the side of sampling. Basement membrane thickening, atypical gland formation...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Stierna P,Carlsöö B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of myringoplasty on 172 ears examined after an average follow-up time of 1.5 years are reported. The fascial underlay technique with swing-door plasty was employed in 78% of the cases. The graft take was successful in 150 ears (87%), three of which (2%) later revealed adhesive changes in the middle ear. Th...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Palva T,Virtanen H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acquired centralized tinnitus (ACT) is the most frequent type of chronic tinnitus. We introduce a cognitive neurophysiological ACT hypothesis based on centralized cognitive sensitization processes. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Published cognitive sensitization processes were reviewed using PubMed. Furthermore, a Coc...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Zenner HP,Zalaman IM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two speech processing schemes have been implemented on a real-time laboratory speech processor for speech perception studies on normal-hearing subjects. The first scheme presents the information of two spectral components, the first and second formant of the speech signal, and will be referred to as the ZC (zero-cross...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Tong YC,Harrison JM,Huigen J,Clark GM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vivo method for the study of mucociliary activity in the human trachea and bronchi is presented. The method is based on a two-way fibre-optic system whereby reflections of light emitted by one glass-fibre and reflected by the cilia are picked up by a second glass fibre and transmitted to a recording unit. The gl...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Huberman D

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to compare the radiologic findings with histological results of anatomically matched whole organ sections and to analyze the accuracy of pretherapeutic radiologic staging of glottic cancers. METHODS:The histologic findings of surgical specimens of 30 patients who had undergone tota...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Lim JY,Park IS,Park SW,Kim JW,Kim YM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:The psychometric characteristics of Standard-Chinese lexical neighborhood test (LNT) confirmed the lexical effects of the four word categories. The established normative baseline can be used in evaluating the word-recognition performance of the hearing-impaired listeners. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the prese...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Wang S,Liu S,Kong Y,Liu H,Feng J,Li S,Yang Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred Malaysian patients representing 227 ears with previously untreated cholesteatoma disease were analysed retrospectively in terms of i) type of disease, i.e. primary acquired attic defect or posterior superior retraction pocket and secondary acquired type cholesteatoma; ii) positive history of previous middl...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Lee ST

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P has been proved an important neurotransmitter and neuromodulator, serving not only as an excitatory transmitter of the first afferent synapse of pain pathways but as a valuable neuromodulator in the primary cortical areas of sensosensorial integration. In the human acoustic cortex, substance P has been fou...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Manolidis L,Baloyannis S,Manolidis S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:Gentamicin ototoxicity presents with gait imbalance and oscillopsia, but only rarely with hearing loss and vertigo. Sinusoidal rotational stimuli with high accelerations such as the bedside head-thrust test or rotational step changes in velocity are useful to diagnose bilateral vestibulopathy. OBJECTIVE:To...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Ishiyama G,Ishiyama A,Kerber K,Baloh RW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Chronic exposure to whole body vibration can affect the gastrointestinal system, the lumbar spine, the peripheral veins and the vestibulocochlear system. Aims/Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of vibration on the vestibular system in noisy and noise-free environments using the v...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Yilmaz N,Ila K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several reports have indicated that some cochlear implant patients experience a reduction in their tinnitus while listening to noise or speech. In the present study, two patients reporting bilateral tinnitus were selected from a group of adults with the Nucleus cochlear implant. They rated their tinnitus loudness and ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Dauman R,Tyler RS,Aran JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:The curative effect in the group where facial-facial anastomosis (FFA) was delayed for 7 days was similar to that in the immediate FFA group and had a better repair within 60 days. OBJECTIVE:Due to the uncertainty about optimal timing of delayed facial nerve repair, we designed an experimental study in guin...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Hu J,Zhou L,Ma Z

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Mucormycosis is a rare acute fatal fungal infection. It is typically observed in diabetic or immunocompromised patients but not in systemically healthy individuals. Here, we describe an unusual mucormycosis case in an immunocompetent patient who had clinical signs of a maxillary sinusitis and associated osteomyelitis ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Deboni MC,Pozzani VR,Lisboa T,Hiraki K,Viplich R,Naclério-Homem MG

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSION:This study demonstrated that treatment with montelukast in combination with levocetirizine may have a beneficial effect on clinical improvement of middle ear fluid in children with otitis media with effusion (OME). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of the combination of montelukast and levocetirizine on shor...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Ertugay CK,Cingi C,Yaz A,San T,Ulusoy S,Erdogmus N,Ertugay OC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Lermoyez syndrome (LS) is a rare auditory disorder, the details of LS remain unclear.Objectives: To investigate the grades of endolymphatic hydrops (ELH) and clinical characteristics of clinically diagnosed LS.Material and methods: Nine patients with clinically diagnosed LS were included. three-dimensional...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Zhou F,Shi S,Wang D,Guo P,Wang W

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a continuation of our previous work, where we have demonstrated that in chronic otitis media the picture in the submucosa-bone marginal zone is dominated by capillary proliferation and occurrence of a mononuclear, histiocyte-like cell containing lysosome-like cytoplasmatic bodies, we now report the presence of cons...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Thomsen J,Bretlau P,Kristensen HK

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONCLUSIONS:Our preliminary results indicate that mastoidectomy by reconstruction of the posterior wall and obliteration (MAPRO) avoided the disadvantages of a canal-wall-down mastoidectomy. MAPRO effectively prevented cholesteatoma recurrence, provided an excellent basis for hearing restoration, and was generally wate...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Kronenberg J,Shapira Y,Migirov L

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The submucosal glands in the rat nose are characterized by the presence of both neutral and acid glycoproteins, which are important constituents of nasal and tracheobronchial secretions. This study is an attempt to gain a better insight into the secretion of these two types of glycoproteins and its neural regulation. ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Klaassen AB,Dooper MW,Rodrigues de Miranda JF,Krabbendam H

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical usefulness of the dichotic multiple-frequency (MF) auditory steady-state response (ASSR) technique for estimating normal hearing compared to a 0.5-kHz tone burst and broadband click auditory brainstem response (ABR) protocol in a sample of adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A comparative ...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Swanepoel D,Schmulian D,Hugo R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) of the alert rhesus monkey was studied using rotational acceleration in the horizontal plane. Both sinusoidal and pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) stimuli were used to perform parameters. Results from sinusoidal studies over the frequency range 0.01 to 1.28 Hz, with stimulus amplit...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Furman JM,O'Leary DP,Wolfe JW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop and test an endolabyrinthic microsurgical procedure for treatment of vertigo, the utriculostomy. This involves the application of local heat for obtaining a fistula in the membranous labyrinth, so as to establish communication between the endolymphatic and perilymphatic space...

journal_title：Acta oto-laryngologica

authors： Lavinsky L,Goycoolea M,Gananca MM,Zwetsch Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00