Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol
July 2024
The presence of foreign bodies in the airways remain a diagnostic challenge to healthcare professionals. They can become life threatening emergencies that require immediate intervention or go unnoticed for weeks and even months. Prevention is best but early recognition remains a critical factor in treatment of foreign body inhalation in children.
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September 2023
Aims: To identify the causes of failure of the canal wall down mastoidectomy and evaluate the causes for discharging mastoid cavity and to address the causes of failure of previous surgery to minimize the Revision surgery.
Materials And Methods: This was a prospective and retrospective observational study conducted at a tertiary care hospital from May 2019 to December 2021. Total 20 Patients (11 male & 9 female) with age group (0-60 years) who previously underwent canal wall down mastoidectomy and presented with complaints of persistent ear discharge were included.
Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
December 2022
Tonsillectomy is the most common surgical procedure performed since many years. Various methods of tonsillectomy (Electrocautery, LASER, Harmonic scalpel, Coblation) have been practiced over the last century aiming for reducing intra and postoperative morbidity. We carried out prospective randomized control study using retrospective data as secondary data to compare blood loss, excision and hemostasis time, pain, recovery time and complication between CO LASER and Electrocautery assisted with conventional method.
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October 2022
Adenoidectomy is one of the commonest surgical procedures performed by otolaryngologists however; its recurrence rates are very high. Our objective in this study was to compare safety and efficacy between conventional curettage and endoscopic assisted microdebrider adenoidectomy. This was a prospective comparative parallel randomized control trial conducted at a tertiary care hospital from April 2017 to December 2018.
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October 2022
Our aim is to analyze effect of covid-19 pandemic in management of pediatric emergencies in E.N.T.
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March 2019
To assess and compare cytogenic damage in the form of micronuclei in various oral lesions according to duration and frequency of tobacco use. The present cross sectional study was carried out from October 2015 to October 2016. We included total 420 cases with 60 cases in each of the following subgroups, no tobacco habit with no obvious oral lesion (control) and tobacco habit with no obvious oral lesion, oral sub mucous fibrosis, leukoplakia, melanoplakia, erythroplakia, oral squamous cell carcinoma.
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