Matched-pair analysis of survival in the patients with T3 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma treated with supracricoid partial laryngectomy or total laryngectomy.

Background: The survival outcomes between supracricoid partial laryngectomy (SCPL) and total laryngectomy (TL) were compared in the groups of matched-pair patients with T3 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC).

Methods: Patients with T3 LSCC were matched based on prognostic factors. The Kaplan-Meier curve and the Cox proportional hazards model were used for analysis on survival.

Association of serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol with microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetes patients.

Background: The association of serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) with microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains controversial. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted on patients with T2DM to investigate the relationship of HDL-C with microalbuminuria.

Methods: A total of 524 participants with T2DM were recruited in this cross-sectional study.

A Trauma Doctor's Practice in Nineteenth-century China: The Medical Cases of Hu Tingguang.

This paper analyses the medical activities of Hu Tingguang, an early nineteenth-century Chinese healer who specialized in treating traumatic injuries. Hu aimed to improve the state of medical knowledge about injuries by writing a comprehensive treatise titled , completed in 1815. This work notably included a set of medical cases describing the experiences of Hu and his father, which Hu used to teach readers how to employ and adapt different therapies: bone setting, petty surgery, and drugs.

Papillary thyroglossal duct carcinoma: report of nine cases and review of literature.

Background: Thyroglossal duct carcinoma (TDCa) is a rare malignancy. Thus, we summarized the clinical characteristics of TDCa to explore the strategy of diagnosis, surgical treatment, and prognosis of patients with papillary TDCa.

Case Presentation: A retrospective study was conducted about the medical records of cases with TDCa.

The Menstruating Womb: Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine ().

This paper analyses body and gender in East Asian medicine through a case study of Hŏ Chun's , first ed. 1613). While Hŏ Chun's Chinese sources classified menstrual ailments as a disease of women, Hŏ created a new nosological model that defined menstrual ailments as maladies of the 'womb', an internal body part found in men and women alike.

Between the Living and the Dead: Trauma Medicine and Forensic Medicine in the Mid-Qing.

This paper analyzes the influence of forensic medicine on therapeutic medicine through a case study of Qian Xiuchang and Hu Tingguang, two Chinese doctors who specialized in treating traumatic injuries. During the early nineteenth century, both men compiled medical treatises that sought to improve on a scholarly model of "rectifying bones" articulated in 1742 by the . Both texts also incorporated information from forensic medicine, including official inquest diagrams and checklists promulgated by the Qing government.

[Clinical analysis of 14 patients with extraorbital inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the head and neck].

Objective: To summarize the clinical features of extraorbital inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of the head and neck.

Methods: Fourteen cases of extraorbital IMT treated in recent 20 years were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: Of the 14 patients, 9 cases with limited lesion in maxilla (n = 5), mandible (n = 2) or neck (n = 2) underwent local resection, and no recurrences were found after 1.

[Assessment of dysphagia: report of 37 cases].

Objective: To explore the assessment methods of dysphagia.

Methods: The data of 37 patients with dysphagia were retrospectively analyzed. These patients took the Kubota drinking test, Tengdao's evaluation, videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES).

[Clinical value of upper airway pressure measurement and Friedman staging system in preoperative evaluation for obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome].

Objective: To evaluate the clinical value of localization of upper airway obstructive site with pressure measurements and Friedman staging system in preoperative upper airway reconstructive surgery for obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), and to evaluate the value of Friedman staging system in predicting the upper airway obstructive site.

Methods: One hundred and three patients with snoring, daytime sleepiness diagnosed as OSAHS by polysomnography were first classified using Friedman staging system, and then examined using whole night recording, including airway continuous pressure measurements (Apnea Graph, AG). AG transducer catheter containing two pressure and two temperature sensors used for obstruction site determination and detection of apnea events during sleep.

Body, gender, and disease: the female breast in late imperial Chinese medicine.

This paper examines the diverse ways in which Chinese medical experts historically gendered breast disease as a female ailment. By comparing representations of the female breast from the "Imperially-Compiled Golden Mirror of Medical Learning (Yuzuan yizong jinjian, 1742)" to those from earlier and contemporary texts, this paper analyzes how breast disease was alternately categorized as an ailment of childbearing and as a disease rooted in pathological female emotion. Medical awareness of breast disease in men did somewhat challenge these connections between womanhood and disease.

[Reliability and validity of the simplified Chinese version of Epworth sleepiness scale].

Objective: To investigate the reliability and validity of the simplified Chinese version of Epworth sleepiness scale(ESS).

Methods: Five hundred and eighty-five patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) and 103 OSAHS patients who underwent operations were included in this study. The ESS was filled before polysomnography (PSG) monitoring under the direction of professional technicians.

[A simplified Chinese version of the Quebec sleep questionnaire was evaluated for reliability and validity].

Objective: To develop a simplified Chinese version of the 32-item Quebec sleep questionnaire (QSQ) and to examine the reliability and validity.

Methods: A cross-sectional sample of 141 patients [22 simple snorers and 119 obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS)] and a longitudinal sample of 55 patients [35 in uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) group and 20 in control group] completed the simplified Chinese version of QSQ for assessment of its feasibility, reliability, validity and responsiveness.

Results: QSQ had good feasibility.

[Outcomes of upper airway reconstructive surgery for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome based on upper airway pressure measurements].

Objective: To assess the effect of upper airway reconstructive surgery for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) with the obstructive sites determined by pressure measurements, and to evaluate the clinical value of upper airway manometry in localizing the obstructive sites.

Methods: Fifty-one moderate to severe OSAHS patients were examined using whole night recording, including airway continuous pressure measurements (ApneaGraph, MRA-Medical Ltd, UK). ApneaGraph (AG) transducer catheter contains two pressure and two temperature sensors used for obstruction site determination and detection of apnoeic events during sleep.

Clinical and pathological features of Riedel's thyroiditis.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical and pathological features of Riedel's thyroiditis (RT), and current diagnostic and treatment methods for that disease.

Methods: Five RT cases identified by surgery and pathological examinations at Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1985 to 2009 were analyzed and compared with the cases reported in the literature in terms of clinical and pathological features. Immunohistochemical staining of kappa and lambda light chains was carried out for RT tissues from all the five patients.

[One night treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and hypopnea syndrome with nasopharyngeal airway].

Objective: To investigate the therapeutical effect and feasibility of treating obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) with nasopharyngeal airway.

Methods: Thirty-two OSAHS patients were treated with silicone nasopharyngeal airway for one night. Each patient had Somite polysomnography (PSG) for the first night and repeated PSG with the nasopharyngeal airway treatment for the second night.

[Comparison of diagnosis and localization methods in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: apneagraph vs polysomnography and apneagraph vs endoscopy].

Objective: ApneaGragh is a new device for simultaneous determination of obstructive sleep apnoeic events and continuous pressure measurements for localization of upper airway obstructive site. This study is to evaluate the clinical value of it.

Methods: From April to October in 2006, 32 obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients diagnosed by polysomnography (PSG) were examined by two methods: Endoscopy with müller's maneuver at daytime and continuous upper airway pressure recording with ApneaGraph at night in Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

[Management of nasopharyngeal stenosis following uvulopalatopharyngoplasty].

Objective: Severe nasopharyngeal stenosis (NPS) is a rare complication of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) and very difficult to manage. This report presents our successful treatment experience.

Methods: From Nov 1997 to Feb 2006, 6 adults patients with NPS secondary to UPPP were treated in Peking Union Hospital.

[Expression of Scleraxis in human periodontal ligament cells and gingival fibroblasts].

Objective: To study if Scleraxis, a basic helix-loop-helix type transcription factor, could be expressed in human periodontal ligament cells (hPDLC), bone marrow cells (hBMSC) and gingival fibroblasts (hGF), and to investigate if Scleraxis was involved in hPDLC differentiation.

Methods: hPDLC, hBMSC and hGF were cultured. Expression of Scleraxis in hPDLC from different passages and in hBMSC and hGF was analyzed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).

[Diagnosis and treatment of Madelung's disease].

Objective: To review the characteristics of Madelung's disease which is rare and unfamiliar to clinicians and to find the method of diagnosis and treatment.

Methods: Detailed clinical data of 7 patients with Madelung's disease were reviewed and analyzed. And related literatures were discussed together.

[Investigation of CXCR4 in oral squamous cell carcinoma and its influence on proliferation of tumor cells in vitro].

Objective: To evaluate the expression of CXCR4 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and its influence on the proliferation of OSCC cells.

Methods: The expression of CXCR4 was evaluated by immunohistochemical study in 91 surgically resected oral squamous cell carcinoma, and the relation between the staining and clinicopathological features was examined. Flow cytometry was used to detect CXCR4 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma cell line.