Vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with the thyroplasty window technique for bilateral vocal fold immobility: long-term results.

Conclusions: Vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with the thyroplasty window technique is an effective and durable procedure for the management of patients with bilateral vocal fold immobility.

Objectives: To review the long-term results of bilateral vocal fold immobility in 26 patients treated with vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with the thyroplasty window technique over a 6-year period.

Methods: This retrospective study examined patients with a minimum follow-up of 1 year.

Prevention of cisplatin ototoxicity: Efficacy of micronized flavonoid fraction in a guinea pig model.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of micronized flavonoid fraction in preventing cisplatin ototoxicity in a guinea pig model.

Methods: This study was conducted on 23 guinea pigs in the Animal Laboratory of Izmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital. Animals were divided into three groups: Group 1 consisted of eight animals receiving cisplatin only; Group 2 contained eight animals receiving cisplatin+micronized flavonoid fraction; and Group 3 contained seven animals that received micronized flavonoid fraction only.

Conquering the castle: a novel technique for the middle fossa approach in facial decompression.

Objective: To describe 2 subapproaches of the middle fossa approach: the transillumination method and transection of lines using the foramen spinosum, greater superficial petrosal nerve, and trigeminal impression to locate the malleus head for safe identification and decompression of the geniculate ganglion and facial nerve.

Study Design: Cadaver study.

Setting: A tertiary university hospital anatomy laboratory.

The necessity of dissection of level IIb in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a clinical study.

Objective: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas readily metastasize to adjacent cervical lymph nodes. This is seen frequently in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), and neck dissection may be performed in addition to excision of the primary lesion. The aim of this study was to define the frequency of level IIb metastasis to the lymph nodes in patients who underwent selective neck dissection because of LSCC.

Increased expression of VEGF, iNOS, IL-1β, and IL-17 in a rabbit model of gastric content-induced middle ear inflammation.

Objective: To investigate the histopathological changes and the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), inducible NO-synthase (iNOS), endothelial NO-synthase (eNOS), interleukin (IL)-1β, and IL-17 in the rabbit middle ear mucosa after direct gastric content exposure.

Methods: Exploratory controlled study in which histological and immunochemical features were studied after gastric content-induced inflammation was established in rabbits. Sixteen healthy rabbits were divided into two equal groups.

New technique for the treatment of bilateral vocal cord paralysis: Vocal and ventricular fold lateralization using crossing sutures with thyroplasty technique.

Conclusion: All patients treated with this new lateralization technique had a good quality of life and no dyspnea at rest or upon exertion. We believe that this technique is an important addition to the many surgical techniques for the treatment of bilateral vocal cord paralysis (BVCP).

Objectives: Most techniques used in the treatment of BVCP result in a prolapse of the laryngeal soft tissues into the endolarynx owing to Bernoulli's principle.

Serum matrix metalloproteinases and tympanosclerosis.

Aim: To investigate levels of matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9, and of their tissue inhibitor (i.e. tissue inhibitor matrix metalloproteinase 1), in the serum of patients with tympanosclerosis.

[Stomal recurrence after total laryngectomy: clinical and patological analysis of risk factors].

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate risk factors for stomal recurrence and to state and emphasize the importance of these factors.

Patients And Methods: This study was carried out retrospectively on 119 patients (116 males, 3 females; mean age 56.8 years; range 31 to 86 years) with larynx cancer who underwent total laryngectomy.

The maxillary sinus after total laryngectomy: an electron microscopic study.

Nasal breathing is completely ceased after total laryngectomy. This results in some structural changes in the nasal mucosa, which has been described in numerous studies. This study investigates the changes that appear in the paranasal sinus mucosa.

Tympanosclerosis and our surgical results.

Tympanosclerosis is a sequel of chronic otitis media characterized by the deposition of calcareous plaques following hyaline degeneration in the fibrous layer of the tympanic membrane and inside middle ear mucosa. It usually results from prior middle ear infections. In this study, results of treatment and clinical findings of the patients with tympanosclerosis are presented.

Surgical treatment of the high jugular bulb by compressing sinus sigmoideus: two cases.

If the jugular bulb normally surrounded by a bony layer in jugular fossa is anatomically over the inferior surface of the bony annulus, in the middle ear or over the basal turn of cochlea, it is then named as high jugular bulb (HJB). It may be dehiscent or aberrant. It is reported to occur in 5% of the temporal bone specimens.

A clinico-pathological study of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinoma: correlation of cord-arytenoid mobility with histopathologic involvement.

Objective: This study evaluates the vocal cord and arytenoid mobility in relation to the tumoral involvement of the cricoarytenoid joint (CAJ), thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle, and posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA) muscle in whole-organ sections of total laryngectomy specimens.

Study Design And Setting: The study was prospectively carried out between 1998 and 2003 and involved 133 primary squamous cell carcinoma cases of larynx or pyriform sinus that were treated with total laryngectomy. Preoperative mobility of vocal cords and arytenoids were evaluated separately and correlated with histopathologic findings.