[A case of Madelung's disease combined with laryngeal cancer].

Madelung's disease is a lipodystrophy of unknown etiology. This article reports a case of Madelung's disease complicated with laryngeal cancer. The clinical manifestations of the patient were progressive hoarseness and dyspnea, dysphagia, and diffuse symmetrical swelling of the neck, submental, and submandibular.

[A prospective randomized controlled study of the difference between BPPV manual reduction and automatic device reduction].

To investigate the difference between manual reduction and automatic device reduction in the treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo（BPPV）, and to provide evidence-based medicine for the clinical choice of BPPV treatment. Two hundred and two BPPV patients who came to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment were collected and divided into two groups by random number table method. Group A had 102 cases for manual reduction, and group B had 100 cases for automatic device reduction.

Serum thyroid-stimulating hormone is an independent risk factor of recurrent Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Introduction/aims: Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is generally considered to be monophasic, but some patients have recurrences. The purpose of this study was to clarify the possible link between thyroid parameters and recurrent GBS (RGBS) patients in China.

Methods: In this retrospective study we enrolled patients who were admitted to the Department of Neurology of The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from 2014 to 2020 and fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of GBS or Miller Fisher syndrome.