A 67-year-old man with poorly controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented with progressive dysphagia and was diagnosed with locally advanced carcinoma of the esophagus. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography staging showed mediastinal lymphadenopathy including a large lymph node in the tracheoesophageal groove with moderate tracheal compression. He was advised chemoradi...

Esophageal atresia with or without tracheoesophageal fistula (EA ± TEF) occurs in 1 out of every 3000 births. Current survival approaches 95%, and research is therefore focused on morbidity and health-related quality of life issues. Up to 50% of neonates with EA ± TEF have one or more additional malformations including those of the respiratory tract that occur in a relatively high proportion of...

The proximal q arm of chromosome 15 contains breakpoint regions BP1-BP5 with the classic deletion of BP1-BP3 best known to be associated with Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. The region is approximately 500 kb and microdeletions within the BP1-BP2 region have been reported in patients with developmental delay, behavioral abnormalities, and motor apraxia as well as dysmorphic features includ...

The aim of this study was to analyze the voice quality of alaryngeal tracheoesophageal and esophageal speech, and to determine which of them is more similar to laryngeal voice production, and thus more acceptable as a rehabilitation method of laryngectomized persons. Objective voice evaluation was performed on a sample of 20 totally laryngectomized subjects of both sexes, average age 61.3 years...

The aim is to study the profile of congenital tracheoesophageal fistula with or without esophageal atresia with the effect of modalities of surgical and postoperative management on their outcome. Retrospective study of the records of all cases that had been diagnosed as congenital tracheoesophageal fistula with or without esophageal atresia treated at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, between...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To analyze tracheoesophageal voice resistance in laryngectomized patients by comparing the acoustic, perceptive-auditory and self-evaluation measures before and after the voice resistance test. STUDY DESIGN An observational, experimental study with a quantitative and descriptive approach. METHODS Nineteen total laryngectomees were submitted for capture of vocal intensi...

PURPOSE To describe the incidence and outcomes to one-year in infants born with oesophageal atresia (OA) with no distal tracheoesophageal fistula within a population cohort. METHODS A subgroup analysis of a prospective multicentre population cohort study was undertaken describing the outcomes of infants with OA and no tracheoesophageal fistula, (type A) and those with only an upper pouch fist...