Leveraging the social network for treatment of social anxiety: Pilot study of a youth-specific digital intervention with a focus on engagement of young men.

Objective: The primary objective was to determine the acceptability, feasibility and safety of a novel digital intervention (Entourage) for young people with prominent social anxiety symptoms, with a particular focus on the engagement of young men. The secondary aim was to explore whether the intervention was associated with clinically significant improvements to clinical and social variables known to co-occur with social anxiety.

Method: A multidisciplinary team comprising of mental health clinicians, researchers, young adult fiction writers, a comic artist and young people with a lived experience of social anxiety developed the Entourage platform in collaboration.

Postoperative vocal cord dysfunction despite normal intraoperative neuromonitoring: an unexpected complication with the risk of bilateral palsy.

Background: Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) has become standard practice in thyroid surgery for many surgeons. It reduces the risk of vocal cord palsy in high-risk patients and has led to two-stage operations to prevent bilateral palsies. The specificity of detecting nerve injuries is not 100 %, leading to patients with vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) despite regular neuromonitoring (false-negative IONM).

[Lambs' temporal bone anatomy under didactic aspects].

Human temporal bones in teaching ear surgery are rare. The lamb's temporal bone might be a possible alternative. Temporal bones of the lamb were dissected with a typical temporal bone lab drilling program.

Long-term quality of life evaluation after laser microsurgery with or without adjuvant radiotherapy for laryngeal carcinoma.

Objectives: We evaluated long-term quality of life of patients successfully treated with either laser-assisted microsurgery alone or combined with adjuvant radiotherapy for laryngeal carcinoma.

Patients And Methods: The study included 53 patients who were treated by laser surgery and 16 patients who were treated by laser surgery combined with adjuvant radiotherapy. Quality of life was evaluated with two validated questionnaires: the global EORTC QLQ-C30 and the head and neck specific EORTC QLQ-H&N35.