Dear Editor, I was greatly interested in the article "Surgery in cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up" by Dr. M. Ajalloueyan published in your journal in March 2006; Vol 31, No 1: 37-40.I think there are grave misconceptions and many doubts about this article. That article has some misleading data that should be clarified by the author. The descriptions of table 1, "Statistical characteristics of...

BACKGROUND Hearing impairment is the most common body system disability in veterans. In 2008, nearly 520,000 veterans had a disability for hearing loss through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Changes in eligibility for hearing aid services, along with the aging population, contributed to a greater than 300% increase in the number of hearing aids dispensed from 1996 to 2006. In 2006, th...

OBJECTIVES To describe patterns of care for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and assess conformance with the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Preferred Practice Pattern (PPP). METHODS We obtained administrative, survey, and eye care records data on 395 working-age patients with POAG enrolled in 6 managed care plans between 1997 and 1999. We assessed processes of care at the initial and f...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to quantify the resources used in reestablishing contact with women who missed their scheduled cervical cancer screening visits and to assess the success of this effort in reducing loss to follow-up in a developing country setting. METHODS Women were enrolled in this Cape Town, South Africa-based screening study between 2000 and 2003, and all had scheduled f...

PURPOSE Early palliative care is beneficial in advanced lung cancer patients. We aimed to assess the feasibility of introducing early palliative care in ambulatory advanced lung cancer patients in an Indian tertiary cancer center. METHODOLOGY In a longitudinal, single-arm, and single-center study, fifty patients were recruited and followed up every 3-4 weeks for 6 months, measuring the sympto...

BACKGROUND Filler materials are gaining popularity in nonsurgical rhinoplasty the major advantages are the ability to camouflage the surface deformities, and also the soft and malleable consistency while the major drawback of the safe fillers such as hyaluronic acid is short durability. In this study, we evaluated the injectable cartilage shaving as an autologous filler material for correction...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to report the efficacy of routine follow-up after head and neck cancer treatment. METHOD Data for 520 patients with head and neck cancer registered with between 2002 and 2008 were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS The mean ± SD follow-up period taken into account was 34.7 ± 22.8 months. The pickup rate for recurrence using our follow-up protocol in t...

MATerIAL ANd MeTHods: Fifty-four COPD patients, in whom LTOT was indicated, were recruited to the study between February 2006 and July 2007. Patients received two follow-up visits at 5 and 10 months, and were followed for approximately 19 months. Echocardiography was performed and the dyspnoea score (Medical Research Council, MRC) and St. George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) were applied at ...

background filler materials are gaining popularity in nonsurgical rhinoplasty the major advantages are the ability to camouflage the surface deformities, and also the soft and malleable consistency while the major drawback of the safe fillers such as hyaluronic acid is short durability. in this study, we evaluated the injectable cartilage shaving as an autologous filler material for correction ...