Vascularized Tissue to Reduce Fistula After Salvage Total Laryngectomy: A Network Meta-analysis.

Objective: Salvage laryngectomy is more predisposed to complications than primary operations, with pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) being among the most challenging to manage. Vascularized flaps are increasingly employed during salvage laryngectomy, with a previous review finding a PCF incidence of 31.2% and 22.

Increasing the Safety Profile of Follicular Unit Extraction by Eliminating the Use of Bupivacaine and Nerve Block: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center of North India.

Introduction: Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is a safe and effective procedure in the hands of an expert. Side effects, particularly those which can lead to significant morbidity or mortality, are unacceptable as the procedure is done purely for cosmetic reasons. Any modification that decreases the risk associated with the procedure should be promoted.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of stereotactic radiosurgery as a primary treatment in fast-growing vestibular schwannomas.

Background: Stereotactic radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective method of managing vestibular schwannomas. The primary aim here is to establish the impact of pre-treatment fast-growing vestibular schwannomas on the efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery.

Methods: PubMed, Medline and Embase databases were used.

Dermoscopy of Oral Mucosal Lesions: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in North India and Review of Literature.

Background: Patients with mucosal lesions form a significant number of routine outpatients presenting to the dermatology department where diagnostic confirmation using histopathological examination of mucosal biopsy is neither feasible nor warranted in every patient.

Objective: To study the dermoscopic features of various mucosal lesions affecting the oral cavity and to assess the reliability of mucoscopy vis-a-vis clinico-laboratory findings.

Materials And Methods: An observational, cross-sectional, hospital-based study was conducted over a period of 2 years from March 2019 to February 2021 in the dermatology outpatient department.

Pediatric Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A Clinico-Epidemiological Study from North India.

Background: There has been an upsurge in the cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis over the past few years in the pediatric population of Jammu and Kashmir, hitherto a nonendemic area for the disease., The aim of this study was to describe the clinico-epidemiological profile and therapeutic outcome of pediatric cutaneous leishmaniasis (PCL) over a 10-year period in J and K.

Materials And Methods: An observational study was conducted at two tertiary care hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir over a period of 10 years (July 2010-June 20).

Assessment, reliability, and validity of trichoscopy in the evaluation of alopecia in women.

Background: Alopecia in women is generally difficult to diagnose clinically. Trichoscopy may help make the correct diagnosis in doubtful cases.

Objective: The aims of the study were to assess the trichoscopic features of different types of alopecia in women, the reliability of trichoscopy vis-à-vis clinical findings, and the validity of trichoscopy in cases with a doubtful clinical diagnosis.

Candidal Onychomycosis: Clinicoepidemiological Profile, Prevailing Strains, and Antifungal Susceptibility Pattern-A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: Despite an increasing trend of onychomycosis caused by Candida species in recent years, there is a scarcity of published data.

Objective: To determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of onychomycosis, to identify the prevalent, and perform in-vitro antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) of the isolates.

Methodology: A total of 506 consecutive patients with a clinical suspicion of onychomycosis were included in a cross-sectional clinical study.

Clinical and epidemiological study of cutaneous leishmaniasis in two tertiary care hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir: An emerging disease in North India.

Background: An increasing number of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) are reporting to tertiary care centers in Jammu and Kashmir, an area that has previously been non-endemic for this disease. This merits consideration of CL as a major health problem of considerable epidemiological importance. The aims of this study were firstly to describe the clinico-epidemiological profile, therapeutic characteristics, and outcomes of patients with CL and secondly to highlight this union territory as a new focus of endemicity for CL.

Efficacy Of 17- Α-Hydroxy-Progestrone In Prevention Of Preterm Labour In High Risk Pregnant Women.

Background: Preterm delivery (before 37 completed weeks of gestation) is a major determinant of infant mortality. The objective of study was to determine the efficacy of 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone in preventing delivery before 37 weeks of gestation in high risk women.

Methods: This study, a randomized controlled trial was conducted in Obstetrics OPD, observing all scientific and ethical protocols.

Open access upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: a 2-year experience from 2001 to 2003.

Background: The role of open access endoscopy in detecting serious diseases like malignancy and peptic ulcers is debated. We participated in an open access endoscopy service and this study details our experience.

Methods: The Cancer Society of Kashmir provided an open access upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy service in Kashmir between 2001 and 2003.