Efficacy of tympanostomy tube placement with adjuvant adenoidectomy in children less than 4 years of age.

Objective: About 8.6 % of children in the United States undergo tympanostomy tube (TT) placement every year. Of these, 24.

Competency-Based Assessment Tool for Pediatric Esophagoscopy: International Modified Delphi Consensus.

Objectives/hypothesis: Create a competency-based assessment tool for pediatric esophagoscopy with foreign body removal.

Study Design: Blinded modified Delphi consensus process.

Setting: Tertiary care center.

Advanced practice providers and children's hospital-based pediatric otolarynology practices.

Introduction: Advanced practice providers (APPs), including nurse practitioners and physician assistants, have been deployed in children's hospital-based academic pediatric otolaryngology practices for many years. However, this relationship in terms of prevalence, roles, financial consequences and satisfaction has not been examined. The objective of this study is to explore how APPs impact healthcare delivery in this setting.

Complete Tracheal Ring Deformity. A Translational Genomics Approach to Pathogenesis.

Complete tracheal ring deformity (CTRD) is a rare congenital abnormality of unknown etiology characterized by circumferentially continuous or nearly continuous cartilaginous tracheal rings, variable degrees of tracheal stenosis and/or shortening, and/or pulmonary arterial sling anomaly. To test the hypothesis that CTRD is caused by inherited or mutations in genes required for normal tracheal development. CTRD and normal tracheal tissues were examined microscopically to define the tracheal abnormalities present in CTRD.

Education on, Exposure to, and Management of Vascular Anomalies During Otolaryngology Residency and Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship.

Importance: The field of vascular anomalies presents diverse challenges in diagnosis and management. Although many lesions involve the head and neck, training in vascular anomalies is not universally included in otolaryngology residencies and pediatric otolaryngology (POTO) fellowships.

Objective: To explore the education in, exposure to, and comfort level of otolaryngology trainees with vascular anomalies.