Thyroid surgery in pediatric age: a ten-year experience at a single center and literature review.

Objectives: Surgery interventions for thyroid disorders are rare in pediatric population. This study aims to present our institution's 10-year experience regarding the surgical treatment and outcomes of thyroid pathologies in children and review the literature.

Methods: All pediatric patients who underwent thyroid surgery at our institution from April 2013 to October 2023 were retrospectively reviewed.

PROPELLER diffusion weighted imaging for diagnosis of cholesteatoma in comparison with surgical and histopathological results: emphasis on false positivity and false negativity.

Purpose: To investigate the role of non-echo planar diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) using "periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction" (PROPELLER) sequence for the diagnosis of cholesteatoma compared to surgical and histopathological results in an attempt to determine the factors causing false negative and false positive diagnoses.

Methods: Patients who had PROPELLER DWI before ear surgery were retrospectively reviewed. The presence of a lesion with diffusion restriction on PROPELLER DWI was accepted as positive for cholesteatoma, and the results were compared to the intraoperative and histopathological findings.

Thyroid Surgery and Inadvertent Removal of Parathyroids.

Unlabelled: This study aimed to determine the incidence of inadvertent parathyroid removal during thyroid surgery and define its associated risk factors. In this single-center record-based study, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical and pathological records of 462 patients undergoing thyroidectomy. Incidental parathyroidectomy was detected in 61 of 462 patients (13.

Effect of Educatıon and Socıal Anxıety on Acoustıc, Perceptual and Aerodynamıc Parameters of Adult Females.

In this study, we hypothesized that social anxiety disorder would be more common in women with lower education levels and that this could have a negative effect on acoustic parameters. A total of eighty-eight (88) healthy female volunteers were enrolled into the study. These volunteers were divided into two groups, which were categorized as those with graduation from elementary school or below (Group A, n = 42) and those with graduation from high school or above (Group B, n = 46).

A single-center multidisciplinary study analyzing thyroid nodule risk stratification by comparing the thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TI-RADS) and American thyroid association (ATA) risk of malignancy for thyroid nodules.

Objectives: The thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TI-RADS) and 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines are two well-known risk stratification systems for classifying thyroid nodules based on cancer risk. This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of these two systems in predicting malignancy in patients undergoing thyroid surgery.

Methods: We studied data on 120 individuals who were scheduled to undergo surgery for benign or malignant nodular diseases of the thyroid gland between October 2017 and October 2019.

Relationship of overexpression with prognostic parameters in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Objectives: chromosomal rearrangement is frequently seen in thyroid cancer, and overexpression has been shown in the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma, but not in papillary thyroid carcinoma other than the follicular variant. The main aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of overexpression among papillary thyroid carcinoma and if there were any variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma with overexpression other than the follicular variant.

Methods: Immunohistochemical analysis of overexpression was performed using a monoclonal antibody in a series of 111 paraffin-embedded blocks of thyroid tumours.

Evaluation of the Auditory System in Autistic Children Using Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions and a Contralateral Suppression Test.

In this study, we evaluated the cochlea, medial olivocochlear system, and brainstem function in autistic children using evoked otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and a noninvasive contralateral suppression (CLS) test. In total, we included 21 autistic children with normal hearing (study group) and 11 healthy children (control group). Transient-evoked OAEs (TEOAEs) and CLS of TEOAE were evaluated in the left and right ears of all patients.

Laryngeal Framework Surgical Anatomy: A Radiological Study.

Purpose: Awareness of variations in laryngeal anatomy among different age and gender groups is crucial during laryngeal framework surgery. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between gender and laryngeal radiologic morphometrics among different age groups and the applicability of important anatomical landmarks of laryngeal surgery.

Methods: Laryngeal images of 180 adult patients older than 18 years of age were obtained by computed tomography and assessed.

Accuracy of Frozen Section Examination in Oral Cavity Cancers.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the intraoperative frozen section with the surgical margin in the postoperative surgical margins of the postoperative pathology of oral squamous cell carcinomas in order to examine the reliability of the frozen section.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted for patients who underwent surgery for oral squamous cell carcinoma in a tertiary hospital between January 2018 and 2019. The intraoperative frozen section examinations, grade of the tumor, number of lymph nodes, number of affected lymph nodes, depth of invasion, perineural invasion, lymphovascular invasion, and extranodal extension were recorded from the pathological records.

The Effect of Passive Smoking on Mucociliary Clearance and Inferior Concha Reactivity.

Introduction: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of cigarette smoke on turbinate reactivity and mucociliary clearance (MCC) in passive smokers.

Methods: 60 adult patients (30 passive smokers and 30 healthy subjects as the control group) were recruited for this study. Following a questionnaire on passive smoke exposure, MCC measurement using the saccharin test was carried out to all participants.

Clinicopathologic Results of the Surgical Management of Thyroid Gland Pathologies.

Objective: The aim of this study is to share our surgical approach and results in patients with benign and malignant thyroid diseases.

Methods: All patients who underwent thyroid gland surgery at our University Hospital Ear, Nose, and Throat Department between 2012 and 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. The study included 293 patients.

Comparison of Voice Quality of Life in Early Stage Glottic Carcinoma Treated with Endoscopic Cordectomy Using Radiofrequency Microdissection Electrodes, Laser Cordectomy, and Radiotherapy.

Purpose: To compare the quality of life of patients with early glottic carcinoma who have been treated using three treatment modalities: endoscopic cordectomy using radiofrequency microdissection electrodes (ECRM), transoral laser cordectomy, and radiotherapy (RT). ECRM, transoral laser cordectomy, and RT can all be used as alternatives to invasive open surgery to treat the early stages of glottic cancer such as stage T1. Patients treated using these different modalities could have different outcomes with respect to voice quality of life.

Effect of Hyperbilirubinemia on Medial Olivocochlear System in Newborns.

Objectives: To evaluate medial olivocochlear efferent system of babies with hyperbilirubinemia with normal auditory brain stem responses.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective study in a tertiary referral hospital. The study involved 40 hyperbilirubinemic and 44 healthy newborns.

Comparison of Voice Quality and Cost Effectiveness of Endoscopic Cordectomy Using Microdissection Electrodes with Laser Cordectomy and Radiotherapy.

Objective: To compare the acoustic parameters and the cost effectiveness achieved after endoscopic cordectomy using radiofrequency microdissection electrodes (ECRM) with those of transoral laser cordectomy and radiotherapy.

Methods: The study included 81 disease-free patients previously treated for early larynx carcinoma (30 with ECRM, 27 with transoral laser cordectomy, 24 with primary radiotherapy). Post-treatment voice analysis was performed in all patients.

The Effect of Nasal Functions on the Integrity of Grafts after Myringoplasty.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the effects of nasal functions for the integrity of grafts after myringoplasty.

Methods: In our study 78 patients who underwent myringoplasty operation between 2011-2013 were included. Group I was defined as the group with an intact tympanic membrane following surgery.

Evaluation of the Effect of Topical Application of Nigella sativa on Acute Radiation-Induced Nasal Mucositis.

The goal of this study was to demonstrate the effect of radiotherapy (RT) on nasal mucosa in rats and to evaluate the radioprotective effects of the topical application of black seed oil (Nigella sativa [NS]) to treat acute radiation-induced nasal mucositis.A total of 18 rats were randomized into 3 groups, with 6 animals per group. The rats in group 1 were topically administered saline in the nasal cavity after sham irradiation.

Correlation between cVEMP and ABR for the Evaluation of Vestibular Migraine.

Objective: Vestibular migraine (VM) is a clinical condition characterized by temporal overlap between vestibular symptoms and migraine. In this study, we aimed to determine the changes in vestibular myogenic potential (cVEMP) and auditory brainstem response (ABR) in patients with VM and migraine.

Materials And Methods: A total of 86 participants with no hearing loss or additional disease between the ages of 18 and 45 were enrolled in three different groups: group 1, VM; group 2, migraine without aura; and group 3, healthy controls.

Change in nasal congestion index after treatment in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis.

Background: The management of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) involves both surgical and medical approaches, and remains a controversial subject.

Objective: The objective of this prospective, randomized, controlled trial was to compare the medical and surgical treatments of CRSwNP in terms of their effect on the nasal congestion index (NCI).

Methods: Forty-eight patients with CRSwNP were randomized either to medical or surgical therapy.

Clinical evaluation of inner ear changes as result of chronic otitis media and its surgery.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate whether chronic otitis media (COM) may cause inner ear damages or middle ear surgery may improve this damage with regard to sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and tinnitus and dizziness-related disability.

Patients And Methods: An observational prospective study was performed on a series of 65 patients (41 males, 24 females; mean age 26.4±12.

Is hearing loss in infants associated with risk factors? Evaluation of the frequency of risk factors.

Objectives: To evaluate the frequency of risk factors and their influence on the evoked otoacoustic emission (OAE) of infants.

Methods: All newborns between November 2009 and June 2012 in Haydarpaşa Numune Education and Research Hospital were tested on distortion evoked OAE screening test. Total of 2,284 infants were examined.

Platelet-rich fibrin plays a role on healing of acute-traumatic ear drum perforation.

Objective: Our objective was to demonstrate the effects of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) for the healing of acute ear drum perforation.

Methods: Thirty-two patients with acute traumatic ear drum perforations were randomly separated into 2 groups. In group 1 (n = 14), PRF was used for the repair of ear drum perforation; in group 2 (n = 18), we did not make any intervention.

A rare tumor of nasal cavity: glomangiopericytoma.

Glomangiopericytoma is a rare vascular neoplasm characterized by a pattern of prominent perivascular growth. A 72-year-old woman was admitted to our clinic complaining of nasal obstruction, frequent epistaxis, and facial pain. A reddish tumor filling the left nasal cavity was observed on endoscopy and treated with endoscopic excision.

Relation of mean platelet volume with obstructive adenoid hypertrophy in children.

Objective: Adenoid hypertrophy (AH) is a common etiology of chronic upper airway obstruction. Upper respiratory tract obstruction may cause chronic alveolar hypoventilation and pulmonary vasoconstriction. In one previous study in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), it has been claimed that mean platelet volume (MPV), an indicator of platelet activation is increased and that MPV has an important role in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases.

[Transoral robotic surgery for sleep apnea syndrome].

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a multisystem disorder which adversely affects all body systems including cardiovascular system particularly and the quality of life. Although continuous positive airway pressure is an effective way of treatment in the treatment of OSAS, a substantial proportion of patients are not able to tolerate this treatment and seek for alternative treatment modalities. Transoral robotic lingual tonsillectomy is a novel technique for the surgical management of patients with OSAS.