An 8-year old boy had earache and vomiting due to otomastoiditis with acute thrombosis of the sinus sigmoideus.
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PLoS One
December 2024
Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.
Objective: To assess the awareness about hearing loss and ear health among adults in Jordan.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted where a questionnaire was filled from the month of November to the month of December of the year 2023, to assess the level of awareness about hearing loss and ear health. The participants included were Jordanian adults (age ≥ 18 years) residing in the North, Middle and South of Jordan.
Otol Neurotol
April 2024
Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York.
Objective: To make recommendations for evaluation, approach to counseling and treatment for patients who present with ear fullness without abnormalities on otomicroscopic examination, standard audiometric studies, or imaging results.
Methods: Retrospective chart review of adult patients in a tertiary referral center presenting with ear fullness and/or otalgia without external, middle, and/or inner ear pathologies. Data collected include demographics (age and gender), laterality and duration of symptoms, co-morbid conditions and final diagnoses of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, intermittent Eustachian tube dysfunction (iETD), migraine disorder, and anxiety.
J Cancer Res Ther
January 2023
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) remains the most common cancer among Indian men. OSCC involving the tongue and bucco alveolar complex (BAC) behaves differently. Nevertheless, the differences in clinical features and symptoms between the two subsites and their relation to pathology remain largely unexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Oral Maxillofac Surg
February 2022
Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Electronic address:
Purpose: Head and neck cancer is often associated with pain and perineural invasion (PNI). The purpose of this study was to determine the association of pain complaints and the microscopic identification of PNI in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC).
Patients And Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed including patients diagnosed with OPSCC from 2010 to 2019.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg
August 2020
Professor, Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pathology, and Radiology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN.
Purpose: Tongue cancer is often associated with pain and perineural invasion. The purpose of the present study was to determine the association between tongue pain and otalgia and the microscopic identification of perineural invasion (PNI) in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue (SCCOT).
Patients And Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed of patients with a diagnosis of SCCOT from January 2013 through June 2019.
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