Acoustic rhinometry and video endoscopic scoring to evaluate postoperative outcomes in endonasal spreader graft surgery with septoplasty and turbinoplasty for nasal valve collapse.

Background: Nasal obstruction is a common complaint seen by otolaryngologists. The internal nasal valve (INV) is typically the narrowest portion of the nasal cavity, and if this area collapses on inspiration the patient experiences significant symptoms of nasal obstruction. The nasal obstruction is further compounded if the INV is narrower than normal.

Survival outcomes of First Nations patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (Poliquin 2014).

Background: Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) is the most common head and neck cancer, affecting approximately 2000 Canadians yearly. Analysis of Canadian Cancer Registry data has shown that the incidence of oral cavity cancer is decreasing and survival outcomes are improving. There are significant health disparities in First Nations (FN) people in Canada.

Factors associated with the morphological type of laryngomalacia and prognostic value for surgical outcomes.

Importance: The classic presentation of laryngomalacia (LM) is stridor, but alternate presentations include snoring and/or sleep-disordered breathing (S-SDB) and swallowing dysfunction (SWD). Several classification schemes have been developed for LM, but to our knowledge, none have been successfully investigated as to the ability to predict parameters of patients with LM or surgical outcomes.

Objective: To compare parameters of patients with different types of LM and determine whether the type has prognostic value for surgical outcomes and to explore if any variable predicts or correlates with the type of LM.

Primary Presentations of Laryngomalacia.

Importance: Laryngomalacia (LM) classically presents with stridor in early infancy but can present atypically with snoring and/or sleep-disordered breathing (S-SDB) or swallowing dysfunction (SwD). The epidemiology of these atypical presentations has not been established in the literature.

Objective: To document the primary modes of presentation for LM in a consecutive series of children and to compare the characteristics of each subgroup.

Idiopathic vocal cord paralysis in the radiated neck: a harbinger for malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour.

Objective: Patients with previous neck external beam radiotherapy (XRT) diagnosed with idiopathic vocal cord paralysis (VCP) can harbour sinister pathology. A case series of such patients found to have vagal malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours (MPNSTs) is presented and combined with a literature review. Management and survival outcomes are analyzed.