Serum cytokine profile of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate serum cytokine concentrations in healthy individuals and laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Methods: A total of 59 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients and 44 healthy controls were included. Multiplex analysis of interleukins 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13 and 17 and interferon-gamma with respect to the presence of laryngeal carcinoma, tumour-node-metastasis T stage, nodal involvement and larynx subsite was performed.

Adaptation and Validation of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI)-30 into Serbian.

Objectives: To evaluate the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and clinical validity of the Serbian version of the self-administered Voice Handicap Index (VHI)-30.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: The English version of VHI-30 was translated into Serbian and then back-translated into English.

Risk factors for surgical site infection in laryngeal cancer surgery.

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a significant factor of morbidity and mortality in patients surgically treated for laryngeal carcinoma. The aim of this prospective study in 277 patients was to determine the incidence of SSI in patients surgically treated for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma and to identify risk factors for development of SSI. Patients with previous chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy were excluded.

E-cadherin expression in acquired cholesteatoma.

Objectives: The epithelial cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin is important for maintenance normal tissue architecture and for cell-cell communication and immune cell migration. E-cadherin is also present in cholesteatomas. This study determined E-cadherin expression in acquired cholesteatomas and analyzed its expression according to cholesteatoma clinical and histological characteristics.

Early postoperative complications in children with secretory otitis media after tympanostomy tube insertion in the Military Medical Academy during 2000-2009.

Background/aim: Secretory otitis media (SOM) is a chronic, nonpurulent inflammation of the middle ear, characterized by a long-term presence of liquids of different density in the middle ear for at least three consecutive months, different degrees of hearing loss and the absence of perforation of the eardrum. The aim of this study was to estimate the early postoperative complications after insertion of tympanostomy tube (TT) in children with secretory otitis media (SOM) in an 18-month period after TT insertion.

Methods: This retrospective study included children with SOM (n = 478), aged from 2.