Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
June 2024
Trans-esophageal migration of foreign bodies is a rare but serious complication of vulnerable foreign bodies. This clinical case is about a 37-year-old female patient, with a history of foreign body ingestion eight (08) months ago, received for anterior cervical swelling evolving since about seven (07) months ago. The diagnosis of thyroid nodule was evoked on clinical examination and explored by neck ultrasound which confirmed the thyroid nodule and highlighted the presence of an intra-thyroid fish bone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
February 2024
: intra-tracheal migration of esophageal foreign body is very uncommon and dangerous. It is most often caused by a vulnerable foreign body accidentally swallowed. We report the first observation of intra-tracheal migration of corrosive battery in our practice, with review of the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: A legal exception to the principle of equal health rights, discriminatory subsidies often pose an ethical dilemma in the field of application.
Aim: To analyze discriminatory subsidies for healthcare in the light of the ethical principle of justice and to propose alternatives to any inherent legal and ethical conflicts.
Method: This was a qualitative, descriptive and analytical study based on semi-structured interviews with caregivers.
Introduction: Lymph node tuberculosis (LNTB) frequently affects peripheral cervical lymph node body sites. We aimed to study epidemiology and diagnostic and therapeutic characteristics of LNTB patients in ENT routine practice.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional prospective study in the ENT and cervicofacial surgery department at the Sourô Sanou University Hospital of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, for a period of 36 months.
This review sets out to highlighted knowledge gaps regarding the epidemiological, diagnostic (clinical and laboratory) and therapeutic aspects of otomycosis in Africa. A computerized literature search for otomycosis related articles were performed using MEDLINE. The search encompassed articles published in early January 1980 to May 2019 yielded 220 articles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF