Publications by authors named "Gulay Aktar Ugurlu"

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  • * 180 patients were photographed displaying various emotions, and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) system evaluated these images to determine expression recognition accuracy post-injection.
  • * Results showed a significant drop in the recognition of angry and surprised expressions after receiving BoNT-A, while happy and neutral expressions remained mostly unchanged; this suggests BoNT-A may create a more positive facial appearance.
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Purpose: Examination of the scientific literature on cholesteatoma from past to present using bibliometric methods.

Methods: A total of 2353 articles on cholesteatoma between 1980 and 2023 were obtained from the Web of Science database and statistically analysed using bibliometric techniques.

Results: The journals with the highest number of contributions to the literature were Otology & Neurotology (n = 192), Acta Oto-Laryngologica (156) and Laryngoscope (149).

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Objectives: This article aims to analyze the scientific literature on hearing loss (HL) in the field of Otorhinolaryngology published from the past to the present.

Methods: A comprehensive dataset comprising 8013 articles on HL, spanning from 1980 to 2023, was retrieved from the Web of Science database and analyzed using various statistical and bibliometric methods.

Results: The leading countries in productivity were the United States, Japan, and Germany.

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Since the septum plays a key role in maxillofacial growth, the effect of septorhinoplasty maneuvers and the use of poly-p-dioxanone plate during growth on maxillofacial growth was investigated in our study. Thirty-three New Zealand rabbits each with an age of 8 weeks were included in the study. Maxillofacial computed tomography was performed on all 8-weeks old rabbits.

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Purpose: Since many different rates have been reported in the literature and the studies conducted are mostly based on the patient anamnesis, it was aimed to analyze the olfactory dysfunction in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) quantitatively and to reveal its progress by time.

Methods: Patients who described new-onset olfactory dysfunction, who were treated in the COVID-19 departments of our hospital and whose PCR tests demonstrated SARS-CoV-2 presence were included in the study and they were investigated prospectively. Clinical information of all the patients was taken and the levels of olfactory function were detected using the Brief Smell Identification Test (BSIT).

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Introduction: Concha bullosa (CB), which is pneumatization of the concha, is one of the most commonly seen anatomic variations of the lateral nasal wall.

Objective: To investigate the effects on olfactory function of lateral turbinectomy and crushing methods used in the surgical treatment of CB.

Methods: The study included a total of 47 patients operated on for a diagnosis of CB and nasal septum deviation.

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