Publications by authors named "Yutaro Ida"

Article Synopsis
  • Telemedicine in Japan has grown due to COVID-19 deregulation, but its current use is mainly by general practitioners and is still unclear.
  • This study examines telemedicine's role in sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) for allergies, comparing patients who used a mix of telemedicine and in-person visits to those who only had in-person visits.
  • Results showed no significant differences in dropout rates, side effects, or treatment effectiveness, although telemedicine patients had higher copayment costs; further research is needed to clarify telemedicine's status in Japanese healthcare.
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For treatment of a sinonasal inverted papilloma (IP), it is essential to have a definite diagnosis, to identify its origin by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and to select the appropriate surgical approach based on the staging system proposed by Krouse. Recently, a new surgical approach named endoscopic modified medial maxillectomy (EMMM) was proposed. This approach can preserve the inferior turbinate and nasolacrimal duct.

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IgG4-related disease was recently proposed under the classification of systemic chronic inflammatory disease. In the field of otolaryngology, organ-specific diagnostic criteria have been established for the occurrence of this condition in the salivary glands, but not in the sinonasal cavity. Here we report a case involving a 70-year-old man with IgG4-related disease in the sinonasal cavity.

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