The outcomes of children with tracheostomy in a tertiary care pediatric intensive care unit in Turkey.

Aim: We aimed to describe which clinical characteristics were associated with the outcome of tracheostomy in our tertiary care pediatric intensive care unit.

Material And Methods: This was a retrospective review of medical records of pediatric patients who underwent tracheostomy in our Pediatric Intensive Care unit from 2008 to 2014 in Turkey.

Results: Sixty-three patients were included the study.

An Unusual Neck Mass: Ingested Chicken Bone.

Background: Foreign bodies in the upper aerodigestive tract are frequently seen in otolaryngological practice, but migration of an ingested foreign body to the neck is a very rare condition.

Case Report: We present a 66-year-old woman admitted to our outpatient department with a painful neck mass. She had a history of emergency department admission 4 months prior with odynophagia after eating chicken meal.

Voice Onset Time for Turkish Stop Consonants in Adult Cochlear Implanted Patients.

The voice onset time is a temporal acoustic parameter defined as the time between the release of the oral constriction for plosive production and the onset of vocal fold vibrations. Hearing impairment is one of the factors that can effect the magnitude of voice onset time. Since voice onset time is a useful, noninvasive method for documenting the articulatory-phonatory aspects of vocal training during speech, we investigated voice onset time values for Turkish stop consonants in adult cochlear implanted patients in order to clarify the effect of CI and sequential hearing rehabilitation over voice onset time values.

Histopathological and audiological effects of mechanical trauma associated with the placement of an intracochlear electrode, and the benefit of corticosteroid infusion: prospective animal study.

Objective: This study aimed to present the histopathological and audiological effects of mechanical trauma associated with the placement of a model electrode in the scala tympani in rats, and the effects of continuous topical corticosteroid application.

Method: The study comprised three groups of rats. The round window membrane was perforated in all three groups and a model electrode was inserted in the round window.