UNLABELLED Thyroid resection procedures are the most common endocrine surgery procedures in Poland; an estimated 25,000 procedures are performed annually. Long term patient outcomes are rarely analyzed. THE AIM OF THE STUDY was to assess effect of complicated thyroid burgery procedures on personal and Professional life of patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Follow-up of patients with complicatio...

IMPORTANCE Treatment of bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a considerable challenge for otolaryngologists. Many surgical techniques have been developed for the management of this entity to eliminate the need for tracheotomy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the success of the unilateral carbon dioxide laser endoscopic posterior cordotomy technique for bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis. DESIGN A r...

Introduction: West Nile virus is an RNA virus that was first isolated in a patient in the West Nile province of Uganda 1937 and has since than spread to the Middle East, Europe, and found its way to the United States in 1999 when the first case of West Nile Virus was reported in Queens, NY. From 1999 to 2008, there have been a total of about 29,000 cases of which about 12,000 had neuroinvasive ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) remains an important cardiovascular problem in term and pre-term infants. Consequent hemodynamically significant left-to-right shunt may impact all organ systems. There are several kinds of interventions to minimize adverse effects, including cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors, paracetamol, and surgical ligation. Surgical ligation is usually performed when medical th...

To document the trajectory of motor and vocal behaviors in real and developmental time, researchers observed infants at each of 4 biweekly naturalistic play sessions over the transition to crawling. An exhaustive and mutually exclusive coding scheme documented every vocalization and posture. Odds ratios of the likelihood of a given posture-vocalization dyad revealed that vocalization and crawli...

Bilateral vocal cord palsy is almost always caused by neck surgery, particularly surgery of the thyroid. We report a case of bilateral vocal cord palsy requiring emergency surgery to relieve the airway obstruction as the sole presentation of acquired syphilis. As the incidence of syphilis worldwide is rising, this unusual presentation may give clinicians a different perspective on the disease.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to quantify the interactions of the 3 vocalization subsystems of respiration, phonation, and resonance before, during, and after a perturbation to the larynx (temporarily induced unilateral vocal fold paralysis) in 10 vocally healthy participants. Using dynamic systems theory as a guide, we hypothesized that data groupings would emerge revealing context-depe...

Suspension laryngoscopy is one of the most common procedures performed for visualizing and diagnosing diseases of the larynx. A relatively uncommon yet potentially life-threatening complication is that of severe bradycardia or asystole during manipulation of the larynx. This case report highlights the occurrence of this complication during a routine removal of a true vocal fold lesion at a tert...