Analysis of Recurrence after Frontolateral Laryngectomy.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the recurrence and survival of patients treated with frontolateral laryngectomy for T1 and T2 glottic laryngeal carcinoma.

Methods: Patients who underwent frontolateral laryngectomy for glottic laryngeal carcinoma at a tertiary hospital between March 2009 and June 2014 were included. Patient demographics, tumor stage, treatment and histopathological examination data, and adjuvant therapy details were evaluated.

Application of Sal classification to parotid gland fine-needle aspiration cytology: 10-year retrospective analysis of 312 patients.

Background: The accuracy of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is controversial in parotid tumors. We aimed to compare FNAB results with the final histopathological diagnosis and to apply the "Sal classification" to our data and discuss its results and its place in parotid gland cytology.

Methods: The FNAB cytological findings and final histological diagnosis were assessed retrospectively in 2 different scenarios based on the distribution of nondefinitive cytology, and we applied the Sal classification and determined malignancy rate, sensitivity, and specificity for each category.

Is T-tube treatment effective in Meyer-Cotton grade 3 tracheal stenosis: long-term outcomes.

Objectives: To present retrospective experience in Meyer-Cotton grade 3 tracheal stenosis of 17 patients treated by T-tube, considering the characteristics of the treated stenosis, surgical procedures performed, and post-operative outcomes and complications.

Methods: All demographic and clinical data were collected retrospectively. Chest and neck computed tomography scans were performed to assess the stenosis, including length, location, and glottic involvement.

Tracheal Resection With Primary Anastomosis.

The aim of our study was to present our retrospective experience in the single-stage surgical reconstruction of 21 tracheal stenosis (TS) patients during the last 17 years, considering the characteristics of the treated stenosis, surgical procedures performed, and postoperative outcomes and complications. All demographic and clinical data were collected retrospectively. Chest and neck computed tomography (CT) scans were performed to assess the stenosis, including length, location, and glottic involvement.

CO₂ laser treatment of tracheal stenosis.

Conclusion: Delivery of a carbon dioxide laser is an effective method and can be used in selected cases of tracheal stenosis.

Objectives: To present retrospective experience in tracheal stenosis of 16 patients treated by bronchoscopic delivery of carbon dioxide laser, considering the characteristics of the treated stenosis, surgical procedures performed, and post-operative outcomes and complications.

Methods: All demographic and clinical data were collected retrospectively.

[Repair of incus long arm defects by hydroxyapatite bone cement].

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate our ossiculoplasty results using hydroxyapatite bone cement.

Patients And Methods: Data of 29 patients (16 males, 13 females; mean age 28 years; range 17 to 57 years) who were performed ossiculoplasty using hydroxyapatite bone cement in İzmir Katip Çelebi University Atatürk Training and Research Hospital Department of Otorhinolaryngology between January 2010 and December 2013 were retrospectively evaluated. Of the 29 operated patients, bone cement was administered in 23 patients during tympanoplasty, in two patients during open technique tympanomastoidectomy, and in four patients during exploratory tympanotomy.

The effects of hypotensive anaesthesia on otoacoustic emissions: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study with objective outcome measures.

The aim of the present study was to compare pre- and post-operative otoacoustic emission examinations of patients who experienced surgery under hypotensive anaesthesia using distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) and transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE). Forty-one patients, admitted to our tertiary centre for nasal valve surgery, were prospectively and randomly assigned into two groups. Hypotensive group included 20 patients, while control group included 21 patients.

Results of decompression with middle cranial fossa approach or traumatic intratemporal fascial nerve injury.

Objective: To present the results of the traumatic intratemporal facial nerve injury that have undergone facial nerve decompression by using middle cranial fossa (MCF) approach.

Study Design: A retrospective study

Setting: Tertiary referral center

Patients And Methods: In this study, 13 patients who developed facial paralysis due to temporal bone trauma and undergone decompression by using MCF approach in Department of Otorhinolaryngology of İzmir Katip Celebi University Research and Training Hospital between January 1993 and December 2012 were presented retrospectively. Patients were assessed in terms of side, etiology, fracture type, House-Brackmann (HB) grade, electroneuronography (ENOG), electromyography (EMG), hearing loss, operation time, and the region of the injury.

Vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with the thyroplasty window technique for bilateral vocal fold immobility: long-term results.

Conclusions: Vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with the thyroplasty window technique is an effective and durable procedure for the management of patients with bilateral vocal fold immobility.

Objectives: To review the long-term results of bilateral vocal fold immobility in 26 patients treated with vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with the thyroplasty window technique over a 6-year period.

Methods: This retrospective study examined patients with a minimum follow-up of 1 year.