A Prospective Survey of the Incidence of Cranial and Cervical Nerve Injuries After Carotid Surgery.

Background: To prospectively evaluate the involvement of the cranial nerves and cervical plexus branches during carotid surgery and to look for risk factors.

Methods: All patients (n = 50) undergoing carotid endarterectomy between June 1st and October 31st, 2016 in our center were evaluated prospectively. A complete neurological examination was done before the intervention then daily until hospital discharge, and then at 2 months, 6 months and 1 year.

Classification of Wideband Tympanometry by Deep Transfer Learning With Data Augmentation for Automatic Diagnosis of Otosclerosis.

Otosclerosis is a common disease of the middle ear leading to stapedial fixation. Its rapid and non-invasive diagnosis could be achieved through wideband tympanometry (WBT), but the interpretation of the raw data provided by this tool is complex and time-consuming. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) could potentially be applied to this situation to help the clinicians categorize WBT data.

Evaluation of the quality of the information received during head and neck cancer announcement: Prospective two-center study.

Background: Providing patient with cancer with appropriate information following the disclosure of a cancer diagnosis has multiple benefits. The objective was to evaluate the quality of the information received during an announcement for head and neck cancer and to determine predictive factors.

Methods: We conducted a prospective two-center study using self-questionnaires to assess the patient's perception of the quality of the announcement.