BACKGROUND Over the past decade, advances in cancer treatments have been counterbalanced by a rising number of immunosuppressed patients with a multitude of new risk factors for infection. Hence, the aim of this study was to determine risk factors, infectious pathogens in blood and oral cavity of oral cancer patients undergoing different treatment procedures. METHODS The present prospective c...

This paper examines new methodologies that may be used for the process of the Anthropometric data collection in the Human Respiratory Tract (HRT). The geometric dimensions of internal human anatomy in the nasal and oral cavity varies among the individuals but has the same structure overall. The volume of the flow differs widely with respect to the dimensions of the nasal and oral cavity. The pr...

Attic cholesteatoma with antral extension in tight sclerotic mastoid cavities is a common presentation that creates difficult decision-making intraoperatively. Drilling through a sclerotic and small mastoid cavity, keeping the canal wall intactis often difficult and increases the risk of serious injury. Consequently, a canal-wall-down mastoidectomy is often performed. The endoscopic transcanal ...

The cervical syrinx cavity in a 27-year-old male with Chiari 1 malformation was inspected with a flexible small-caliber endoscope during syringo-subarachnoid shunting. A cleft was observed in the midline on the ventral wall of the cavity, from which blood vessels emerged and ran along the wall. Several strands accompanying the blood vessels passed from one wall to another. The endoscope was als...