Preoperative evaluation is important in the detection of patients at risk for difficult airway management. It still unclear whether true prediction possible and which variables should be chosen evaluation. The aim this prospective, multi-centre study was to investigate incidence intubation, sensitivity positive predictive values clinical screening tests combining two or more these will improve intubation Turkish patients.Seven sites from six regions Turkey participated study. One thousand...

Gentamicin is a potent aminoglycoside antibiotic. Ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity are the main side effects which restrict use of gentamicin. Garlic with its intrinsic antioxidant activity may prove beneficial in prevention from ototoxicity. S-allylmercaptocysteine (SAMC), diallyl disulfide (DD), S-allylcysteine (SAC) three active compounds found garlic. In this study, we investigated effect SAMC, DD, SAC on ototoxicity induced by gentamicin rats, using brainstem evoked response audiometry...

Objectives: This research aimed to evaluate pre-operatively and post-operatively the olfactory function of patients who had undergone surgery in our clinic for chronic nasal blockage via Connecticut Chemosensory Clinical Research Center (CCCRC) smell test.Method: Thirty-seven (24 females, 13 males) were enrolled this study. All due (not dysfunction), having been diagnosed with septal deviation conjunction concha bullosa and/or inferior turbinate hypertrophy. is a prospective study without...

Abstract Objective The top 100 physicians of otorhinolaryngology and head neck surgery worldwide were investigated using the Google Scholar h-index. Method Although there are various bibliometrics ranking systems that present academic quantity quality scientists’ published articles, h-index is most popular widely accepted. In this study, was used to search all keywords involving subspecialties surgery, with aim identifying as many possible. Obtaining citations not possible for scientists who...

Abstract The authors aim to analyze the effects of oral antibiotic treatment for traumatic tympanic membrane perforations and compare outcomes patients with perforation after paper-patching procedure spontaneous healing. In this study, 80 diagnosed in otorhinolaryngology emergency department outpatient clinic from March 2010 January 2015 were retrospectively reviewed. If patient is at first week edge moist blood, our routine (group 1). However, if reject or delay admission, follow up closure...

This study aims to compare the effects of radiofrequency ablation and microdebrider reduction in lower turbinate surgery on nasal physiology.Between January 2009 March 2010, 40 patients with complaint obstruction, who were diagnosed hypertrophy, randomly assigned into two groups undergo either (group 1, n=20) or 2, treatments. Nasal grade hypertrophy other symptoms evaluated subjective obstruction scale anterior rhinoscopy before operation, three days, seven four weeks, eight weeks after...

This prospective study was designed to identify risk factors for lingual nerve injury as a complication of suspension laryngoscopy.Fifty-six adult patients (19 females and 37 males) who underwent microlaryngeal surgery (MLS) using the laryngoscopy procedure under general anesthesia at our otorhinolaryngology department between January 2016 2018 were enrolled in this study. All operations performed only cold-steel surgical set, laser radiofrequency energy not included. Unilateral or bilateral...

Conclusions: A significant increase was determined in nasal airway resistance of the pathological side patients with unilateral chronic otitis media (COM) compared non-pathological and normal ears. Based upon this result, pathologies should also be considered during diagnosis treatment stages COM. Objectives: We aimed to investigate whether there a causal relationship between causing eustachian tube dysfunction Methods: Thirty were randomly selected from among who presented due hearing loss...

Esophageal and laryngeal injuries due to ballistic are seldom encountered.Ballistic external neck traumas generally result in death.Incidence of penetrant may vary between 1/5000-137000 patients among emergency service referrals.Vascular injuries, esophagushypopharynx perforations, laryngotracheal bony fractures, segmentations be encountered traumas.Here we report a 27-year-old male patient who was referred our department presented with hyoid bone fracture, multiple mandibular hypopharynx...

Lower cervical bifurcation of common carotid artery (CCA) is a very rarely encountered anatomic variation. Knowing the normal vascular anatomy and also its anomalies important in preventing complications. Ill-defined may lead to massive hemorrhage eventually death during head neck surgery. Imaging by magnetic resonance (MRI), CT, or angiography helpful for diagnosis. We present 62-year-old male patient diagnosed with laryngeal carcinoma who had been treated. His MRI revealed bilateral...

Sodium-2-mercaptoethanesulfonate (MESNA) is widely used in medicine because of its antioxidant and mucolytic effects. In recent years, it has been otologic surgery. Because cleaves disulfide bonds, to easily dissect the epithelial matrix cholesteatoma atelectasis. this study, we hypothesized that MESNA does not have any toxic effect on facial nerve, effects nerve were examined histologically electrophysiologically.Twenty Wistar albino rats used. Groups A B designated as control sham groups,...

Objective: Cartilage is a rigid material that highly resistant to infection and retraction tolerated well by the middle ear.The purpose of this study was review retrospectively results cases mastoid cavity obliteration with cartilage performed after canal wall down (CWD) mastoidectomy discuss literature.Method: Of 983 patients who underwent surgery for chronic otitis media between January 2000 June 2012, 54 CWD plus were followed up regularly selected from database invited re-evaluation.All...

Sleep deprivation disrupts prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle reflex and can be used to mimic psychosis in ex- perimental animals. On the other hand, it is also a model for disorders sensory processing, including migraine. This study aims assess effects sodium valproate, drug that variety neuropsychiatric disorders, on normal disrupted sensorimotor gating rats.Sixty-two Wistar albino rats were randomly distributed into 8 groups. Subchronic intraperitoneal valproate administrated...

Even endotracheal intubation could be considered safe in operations under general anesthesia; rarely, it cause recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis as a complication. As mentioned the literature, possible reason for this, anterior branches of larynx suffer from compression between posteromedial part thyroid cartilage and cuff tube. In unilateral vocal cord due to occurs more frequently comparison bilateral paralysis. These types palsies usually totally improve approximately 6 months. A...

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is an opportunistic infection that primarily affects immunocompromised individuals. Typical symptoms of PJP include the subacute onset dyspnea, nonproductive cough, and low-grade fever. In hematology patients, particularly those who are allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients, disease often presents with a more aggressive clinical course. While hypercalcemia has been documented as manifestation in some solid organ it not reported or patients.

Angiofibromas typically arise from the nasopharynx in young adolescent males. Extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma (ENA) implicates vascular fibrous nodules occurring outside nasopharynx. Since clinical characteristics of ENA differ those nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, diagnosis can be challenging. Biopsy is usually discouraged due to risk bleeding. A high index suspicion and a methodical evaluation are essential establishing proper treatment. We report rare case 49-year-old woman who presented...

Specifically in neck level IIb, the expected normal anatomy does not contain any vital structures and consequently it might direct a surgeon to perform rapid surgical dissection of tissues. Therefore aberrant vessels patients may be overlooked during dissection. Unexpected potentially devastating injuries can avoided by respecting possible neck. In this case report, 74-year-old man was presented with laryngeal carcinoma who treated laryngectomy bilateral During left side dissection, tortuous...