Objective: The aim of this study is to review the oncological outcomes T1-T4 glottic or supraglottic tumor patients who underwent supracricoid partial laryngectomy in our clinic. Material and Methods: A total 43 with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma between January 2014 December 2016 Otorhinolaryngology Department Istinye University Hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Postoperative data th...

Glottal incompetence is a common laryngeal disorder causing impaired swallowing and phonation. The resultant voice has been characterized as weak and breathy with a restricted pitch range. Currently, medialization thyroplasty and arytenoid adduction are two of the surgical treatments for patients with glottal incompetence. However, few studies have evaluated the changes in objective measures of...

PURPOSE Creation of a tunneled mucosal shunt between the trachea and pharynx that is controlled by remaining intrinsic laryngeal musculature with its nerve supply is an acceptable voice restoration procedure for advanced T3 and T4 laryngeal cancer. Such a tunnel will allow unilateral direction of air from lung to pharynx during phonation and will prevent aspiration since deglutition is a vagal ...

In a previous report, the authors found significant population variation in the calls of cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) that could not be explained by geographic variation in body size alone. Here we extend that work by investigating intraspecific population variation in the morphological characteristics underlying acoustic communication in male cricket frogs from several sites in Texas. We me...

A 63 year old woman presented with a 3 year history of exertional dyspnoea. Spirometry suggested extrathoracic airway obstruction (decreased inspiratory flow and saw-tooth pattern of flow-volume curves), and bronchoscopy revealed structural lesions and a trembling motion in the arytenoid region, causing upper airway obstruction on forced respiratory efforts. As there were no abnormal findings o...

Contact Educational Objective: At the conclusion of this presentation, the participants should be able to discuss the work-up, diagnosis and management for heterotopic ossification of the larynx and identify the airway risks associated with this diagnosis. Objective: Benign bony lesions involving the larynx are rare. The objective is to review the differential diagnosis and management of laryng...

there are significant structural differences between the mouth and pharyngeal cavity of birds and mammals. it is usual to refer to a common oropharyngeal cavity of birds because the soft palate, which forms such an obvious delineation between the mouth and pharyngeal cavity, is absent. six male adult ostriches were used to study the oropharyngeal cavity and its components including the beak, ha...

There are significant structural differences between the mouth and pharyngeal cavity of birds and mammals. It is usual to refer to a common oropharyngeal cavity of birds because the soft palate, which forms such an obvious delineation between the mouth and pharyngeal cavity, is absent. Six male adult ostriches were used to study the oropharyngeal cavity and its components including the beak, ha...

Physiological measurements are made directly on human talkers to determine several dynamic laryngeal functions. The functions are control variables in a speech synthesizer which utilizes acoustic models of the vocal cords and vocal tract. The functions are measured simultaneously and recorded on multichannel FM tape. They are the time variation of vocal-cord (glottal) opening (Ag); the electrom...