Result: Of the 100 patients, 90 of them exhibited benign lesions. Along with hoarseness of voice, other symptoms reported were cough and throat pain (21%), breathlessness (19%), fever (11%), dysphagia (8%), and fatigue (1%). Chronic laryngitis is seen as the most common disorder. The duration of the symptoms in our study ranged from 2 days to 9 years. Improvement in symptoms was seen in 80% cas...

of village Jhowa, under the jurisdiction of Contai Thana, rubbed two seeds with treacle on a mortar and swallowed them down oil the 5th of June 1897, to procure abortion. Almost immediately after taking the poison, she felt a burning pain in the throat, vomited and purged several times, became much prostrated, and had several fainting fits. She was brought to hospital by the police on the follo...

A 52-year-old woman developed headache, throat foreign body sensation, neck pain, and fever of 3 days duration 3 months after choking on a Pearl Spot fish bone (FB). CSF contained 2,200 cells, neutrophils (90%) with normal sugar and protein. Brain MRI showed possible occipital cerebritis (figure). CT neck revealed a retropharyngeal foreign body, abscess and emphysema, and a pharyngeal fistula. ...

THE SYNDROME of glossopharyngeal neuralgia associated with disturbances of cardiac and cerebral function is a rare disorder, having been reported to our knowledge in only 16 patients.1 '4 It is characterized by paroxysms of neuralgic pain in the throat and neck and accompanied by bradyeardia or asystole, hypotension, syncope, and sometimes seizures. The following report describes detailed cardi...

was brought to this dispensary with the history that a belcha?(a small mattock or trowel used for digging and up-rooting weeds)?had lodged in his throat. He complained of severe pain in the gullet, could only speak with great difficulty, and could swallow nothing at all. His attendants said that at first the belcha was visible from the mouth, but all efforts to extract it had only succeeded in ...

Thyroid abscesses are rare complications of neck infections. We report the case of a teenager who developed increasing neck pain and swelling following treatment for a Streptococcus throat infection. Imaging demonstrated a complex fluid collection in the left thyroid lobe. Ultrasound guided aspiration was performed for diagnostic purposes, yielding purulent fluid that grew multiple bacterial sp...

Understanding the precise structure of pore space is integral to fully understanding flow through porous media. This understanding is essential in research on single-phase incompressible flow in situations where another dominant flow factor is the fluid-wall surface tension [1]. Determining the relationship of pore structure and bulk flow properties is complicated since the structure of pore sp...

BACKGROUND The Streamlined Liner of the Pharynx Airway (SLIPA), a type of supraglottic airway, has a non-inflatable cuff that softens at body temperature to fit the laryngeal structure. We investigated whether pre-warming of SLIPA to body temperature may improve insertion parameters. METHODS Ninety adult patients were assigned equally randomized to either Group W or Group R. Anesthesia was in...

PURPOSE Little is known about the role family physicians play when a patient deliberately hastens death by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED). The purpose of this study was to gain more insight for family physicians when confronted with patients who wish to hasten death by VSED. We aimed to describe physicians' involvement in VSED, to describe characteristics and motives of their p...