Publications by authors named "W S Crysdale"
Objective: To comment on the experience gained from completing 518 nasal procedures in 480 children over the 21-year period from 1986 to 2006 inclusively.
Design: Prospective, nonblinded, nonrandomized study.
Setting: Tertiary care pediatric academic otolaryngology-head and neck surgical practice.
Objectives: (1) To describe various preoperative and diagnostic findings of children undergoing adenoidectomy and (2) to evaluate quality of life outcomes following adenoidectomy in children.
Methods: This was a prospective observational study. Patients who were candidates for adenoidectomy at The Hospital for Sick Children were evaluated with respect to preoperative symptoms, flexible nasal endoscopy (FNE) findings, and nasal airflow (NAF) studies.
Saliva control issues in the neurologically challenged. A 30 year experience in team management.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
March 2006
Objective: The objective of this paper is to report the experience of a multidisciplinary team (otolaryngologist, speech-language pathologists, pediatric dentist, and social worker) functioning at a pediatric rehabilitation center have had in the management of 1487 neurologically challenged individuals with saliva control issues assessed from 1976 to the end of 2004.
Method: The role of each team member is outlined. Management decisions have consisted of no treatment, utilization of oral-motor training program, elimination of contributing situational factors, utilization of medication, surgery and Botox injections of the major salivary glands.
Objective: To document the response of two patients with severe recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis following treatment with intralesional cidofovir in conjunction with carbon-dioxide laser evaporation.
Setting: Tertiary referral centre.
Methods: Retrospective review of treatment of two patients followed up over a 12-month period.