Decrease in number of mast cells in resected nasal polyps as an indicator for postoperative recurrence of chronic rhinosinusitis.

Background: In the clinical setting, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is usually divided into eosinophilic-CRS (ECRS) and non-ECRS (NECRS) in Japan. Patients with the former are believed to be at risk for postoperative recurrence of CRS. However, some patients have been missed according to these phenotypic classifications due to the low number of infiltrating eosinophils in polyp tissues.

Clinical Study of Extrapulmonary Head and Neck Tuberculosis: A Single-Institute 10-year Experience.

Introduction Although the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Japan has been decreasing yearly, Japan remains ranked as an intermediate-burden country for TB. Objective This study aims to investigate the current situation of head and neck extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) diagnosed in our department. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of 47 patients diagnosed with EPTB in the head and neck in our department between January 2005 and December 2014.

Site-specific analysis of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas of the head and neck: A retrospective 10-year observation.

Conclusion: B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) in the head and neck most commonly affected the oropharynx and the cervical lymph node in sexagenarian patients, with more than 70% of these cases being diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Accordingly, B-NHL should be considered one of the most important differential diagnoses of head and neck malignancies.

Objectives: It has previously been reported that the majority of head and neck malignant lymphomas are B-NHLs.

Neural mechanisms of phonemic restoration for speech comprehension revealed by magnetoencephalography.

In daily communication, we can usually still hear the spoken words as if they had not been masked and can comprehend the speech when spoken words are masked by background noise. This phenomenon is known as phonemic restoration. Since little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying phonemic restoration for speech comprehension, we aimed to identify the neural mechanisms using magnetoencephalography (MEG).

Blockage pattern of longitudinal flow in Meniere's disease.

Conclusion: In the present study, classification of the patterns of 3D CT images of the ductus reuniens (reuniting duct) (RD), saccular duct (SD), and endolymphatic sinus (ES) gave more precise information for assessing the pathological condition of Meniere's disease (MD) than our previous study.

Objective: This study attempted to provide more detailed information on MD by classifying the patterns of 3D CT images of the RD, SD, and ES in patients with MD.

Methods: We examined the ears of 62 patients with definitely diagnosed unilateral MD based on the criteria of the Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) using 3D CT.