Open surgery with a lateral neck approach in cases of foreign body impaction that penetrating the neck through the esophagus: a single-center experience.

Background: Because the cases are quite scarce, we aimed to review cases of foreign body impaction penetrating the neck through the esophagus to analyze the characteristics of these cases. The open surgery skills of the surgeon, the treatment procedure and the surgeons' experience in the rare diseases were analyzed.

Methods: We collected and analyzed all cases from 2015-2020 in our hospital.

A comparison of patients with neck abscesses caused by esophageal foreign body impaction vs. inflammatory disease: a retrospective study.

Objectives: During clinical practice, we have detected a few cases of neck abscesses in patients diagnosed with esophageal foreign body impaction (EFB) but without the primary inflammatory disease. However, we do not know if neck abscesses caused by an inflammatory source are more like to be associated with a more severe progression or poorer prognosis. In this study, we aimed to identify differences between these two groups of patients by comparing progression and prognosis.

Decrement of prognostic nutrition index in laryngeal diseases: from precancerous lesion to squamous cell carcinoma.

Background: Malnutrition and systemic inflammatory response have been confirmed to be important risk factors for various cancers.

Objective: To compare pretreatment prognostic nutrition index (PNI) among patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), laryngeal precancerous lesion (LPL) and laryngeal benign lesion (LBL).

Methods: A total of 253 male patients with laryngeal lesions were divided into LBL, LPL with low risk (LPL (l)), LPL with high risk (LPL(h)), LSCC (i), LSCC (ii) and LSCC (iii) groups according to their histopathological findings and the TNM staging system.

The racial disparity of nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on the database analysis.

Objective: To investigate whether the racial/ethnical disparity of nasopharyngeal carcinoma exists among the four major ethical groups in the United States named Asians, Caucasians, African Americans and Hispanics between the years of 1973 to 2013 using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER) database.

Methods: The National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database from 1973 to 2013 was utilized in this study to calculate survival trends for the four main ethical groups in the United States. The cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma were extracted based on the SEER code cs0204schema.

TRIM24 siRNA induced cell apoptosis and reduced cell viability in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common cancer occurring primarily in East Asia and Africa. The high rate of recurrence and metastasis of NPC continuously endangers the health of patients. The present study aimed to identify the underlying mechanisms involved in the progression of NPC and provide experimental basis to develop a novel and efficient agent against NPC.

Myelination of the postnatal mouse cochlear nerve at the peripheral-central nervous system transitional zone.

In the nerve roots of vertebrates, the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) interface at the PNS-CNS transitional zone (PCTZ), which consists of cell boundaries with various myelin components. We have recently shown that the mouse cochlear nerve presents an exceptionally long segment of the CNS tissue extending into the PNS using light microscopy. However, it is unclear how oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells contribute to the formation of myelin components of the PCTZ.

Performance-intensity functions of Mandarin word recognition tests in noise: test dialect and listener language effects.

Purpose: This study established the performance-intensity function for Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin bisyllabic word recognition tests in noise in native speakers of Wu Chinese. Effects of the test dialect and listeners' first language on psychometric variables (i.e.