Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
April 2023
Purpose Of Review: Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinomas are rare aggressive tumours with traditionally poor outcomes. Although multimodality treatment has been recommended by most centres, the ideal treatment sequence or regimen has not been established.
Recent Findings: Recent evidence suggests that induction chemotherapy may be used for chemoselection and cytoreduction prior to definitive chemoradiotherapy.
This case series highlights a possible association between isolated facial nerve palsy and SARS-CoV-2. Caution should be exercised in the use of steroids in patients with COVID-19 as its impact is still not well established.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In this series, we describe ossicular reconstruction using routine TORP in the presence of the stapes superstructure using a tympanic-membrane-to-footplate configuration.
Materials And Methods: This is a case series of 12 patients who underwent TORP ossiculoplasties from 1st January 2010 to 31st October 2017. Data collected included demographics, indication for surgery, status of the middle ear and pre-operative and post-operative audiometric data (including pure tone average (PTA) and air-bone gap (ABG)).
Study Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Cardiac arrhythmias are common in patients with OSA. However, the prevalence and significance of cardiac arrhythmias in Asian patients with OSA are not well studied.
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