Fluorescein-Guided Panendoscopy for Head and Neck Cancer Using Handheld Probe-Based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy: A Pilot Study.

Background: White-light endoscopy and microscopy combined with histological analysis is currently the mainstay for intraprocedural tissue diagnosis during panendoscopy for head and neck cancer. However, taking biopsies leads to selection bias, histopathology is time-consuming, and the advantages of intraoperative decision making cannot be used. Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) has the potential for a rapid and histological assessment in the head and neck operating room.

Gender Disparities in Epidemiology, Treatment, and Outcome for Head and Neck Cancer in Germany: A Population-Based Long-Term Analysis from 1996 to 2016 of the Thuringian Cancer Registry.

This study determined with focus on gender disparity whether incidence based on age, tumor characteristics, patterns of care, and survival have changed in a population-based sample of 8288 German patients with head neck cancer (HNC) registered between 1996 and 2016 in Thuringia, a federal state in Germany. The average incidence was 26.13 ± 2.

Prognostic factors for the outcome of Bells' palsy: A cohort register-based study.

Objectives: There is a lack of data on patients' and diagnostic factors for prognostication of complete recovery in patients with Bell's palsy.

Design And Setting: Cohort register-based study of 368 patients with Bell's palsy and uniform diagnostics and standardised treatment in a university hospital from 2007 to 2017 (49% female, median age: 51 years).

Main Outcome Measures: Clinical data, facial grading, electrodiagnostics, motor function tests, non-motor function tests and onset of prednisolone therapy were assessed for their impact on the probability of complete recovery using univariable and multivariable statistics.

Hospitalization for epistaxis: a population-based healthcare research study in Thuringia, Germany.

Purpose: Epistaxis is the most common ENT emergency. The aim was to determine population-based data on severe epistaxis needing inpatient treatment.

Methods: Retrospective population-based cohort study in the federal state Thuringia in 2016 performed on all 840 inpatients treated for epistaxis in otolaryngology departments (60.

30-day unplanned readmission rate in otolaryngology patients: A population-based study in Thuringia, Germany.

Purpose: Analyze associations between patients' characteristics and treatment factors with 30-day unplanned readmissions in hospitalized otolaryngology patients in the German Diagnosis Related Group (D-DRG) system.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed on 15.271 otolaryngology admissions of 12.