Minimally Invasive Surgery for the Treatment of Hyperacusis.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a minimally invasive surgical procedure in patients with severe hyperacusis.

Study Design: Prospective, longitudinal design.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Complications and oncologic outcomes following elective neck dissection with salvage laryngectomy for the N0 neck.

Purpose: To investigate the difference in survival and complication outcomes between patients with a clinically and radiologically N0 neck who received an elective neck dissection at the time of salvage total laryngectomy compared to those who had salvage total laryngectomy alone.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed on 125 salvage total laryngectomy patients who were clinically and radiologically N0 preoperatively. Performance of an elective neck dissection and other factors were tested for associations with various postoperative complications, disease-free survival, and overall survival.

Rhinosinusitis in the pediatric patient with cystic fibrosis.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common autosomal recessive genetic disorder where a deletion mutation and subsequent downstream alteration in transmembrane regulator proteins results in increased mucus viscosity. CF manifests clinically with chronic multisystem inflammation and recurrent infections. Nearly all children with CF have chronic sinusitis, and a large majority will have concurrent sinonasal polyposis.

Changing trends of speech outcomes after total laryngectomy in the 21st century: a single-center study.

Objectives/hypothesis: To describe the speech rehabilitation outcomes of patients undergoing total laryngectomy (TL) in the 21st century.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: Tertiary academic center

Subjects And Methods: Retrospective review of 167 patients who underwent TL from June 2000 to February 2012.

Transoral laser microsurgery in previously irradiated patients with laryngeal cancer.

Purpose: Early laryngeal cancer is successfully managed with transoral laser microsurgery. Previously radiated patients may experience more post-operative complications. We investigate disease-free survival and secondarily prolonged pain and chondronecrosis.

Distant pseudomeningoceles of the ventral skull base: a report of 2 cases.

Background: The objective of this case series was to report what is to the best of our knowledge the first reports of nasopharyngeal and soft palate pseudomeningoceles tracking submucosally from the sphenoid sinus.

Methods: Analysis of cases through medical records.

Results: Two cases of middle-aged male patients presented to our tertiary care university teaching hospital for recurrent meningitis and a history of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea.

The role of indeterminate fine-needle biopsy in the diagnosis of parotid malignancy.

Objectives/hypothesis: To examine the significance of indeterminate fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of parotid gland malignancy.

Study Design: Retrospective case series, academic tertiary referral center.

Methods: A total of 559 parotidectomies performed between the years of 2005 and 2010 were reviewed, with 56.