Publications by authors named "Abdullah AlShakhs"

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  • * The study aimed to assess the incidence of COVID-19 among children with blood cancer, analyzing their demographics, clinical features, and the outcomes of their treatments.
  • * Out of 3077 identified studies, 155 were included in the review, involving 1289 children with blood cancer and confirmed COVID-19, showing that the majority had relatively mild symptoms, while a minority faced severe complications or death.
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Background: Myopia, the most common refractive error, is a global public health problem with substantial visual impairment if left untreated. Several studies have investigated the association between increased near-work and restricted outdoor activities in children with myopia; however, such studies in children without myopia are scarce. We aimed to monitor the effect of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) home confinement and mandatory virtual learning on myopic progression among myopic and non-myopic school-aged children.

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A revision endoscopic sinus surgery (rESS) is considered when the primary surgery fails to improve the symptoms or causes problems. The rESS is still a difficult surgical procedure, despite the use of imaging-guided surgical navigation systems, because the anatomical landmarks are removed or scarred. To determine the causes and indications of rESS observed radiologically or endoscopically in patients with frontal rhinosinusitis.

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Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) is counted as the most common form of fungal sinusitis. It is mainly due to the hypersensitivity reaction to fungal infection. Usually, the patients are atopic or immunocompetent.

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The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was appeared at the end of 2019 in wuhan city in china. Covid-19 has high ability of transmission from human to another human, and due to its fast spread globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 is pandemic disease on March 11, 2020. Several articles have reported many common ENT-related symptoms as an early sign of COVID19.

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Objectives: The aim of this report is to show the usefulness of endoscopic sinus surgery in management of lateral frontal mucocele in pediatric patient.

Case Presentation: A 14 years old girl presented with right frontal bone depression and headache. CT and MRI showed lateral mucocele occupying the right frontal sinus.

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