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Mucormycosis is a serious life-threatening fungal infection that recently made severe sudden and devastating surge during the second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic with a mortality rate of up to 50%.
Sinonasal mucormycosis is a quickly progressing and lethal fungal disease which showed an increased incidence in COVID-19 patients in the Indian population during the second wave of the pandemic. The objective...
BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) is a disorder that causes sudden, spinning sensation for few seconds with specific head movements. Of all disorders of inner ear that causes dizziness, BPPP is the m...
The majority of obstructive sleep apnea cases involve the oropharynx. The hypercollapsibility of the upper airway walls (UAWs) was the cause of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which most often manifes...
The introduction of sialendoscopy has been a major step forward in providing an accurate means of diagnosing and locating submandibular sialolithiasis, also in permitting minimally invasive surgical treatment ...
Congenital aural atresia (CAA) and stenosis is a rare defect affecting the external auditory canal which causes varying degrees of hearing impairment. This malformation may be unilateral or bilateral. Timely h...
Pre-operative imaging tools play a crucial role in the anatomic assessment of the upper airway and adjacent structures in obstructive sleep apnea patients. The current study was aimed at comparing and correlat...
Antrochoanal polyps (ACPs) are pathologically benign nasal swellings. The maxillary sinus is the commonest reported origin. The polyps are usually unilateral and often exit through the progressively widened ma...
Mucormycosis is a highly infectious deadly disease if left untreated. This disease is usually seen more in people having immunocompromised conditions like diabetes mellitus, steroid use, and neutropenia. Its p...
Telemedicine is a method of providing remote healthcare services and consultations to patients using communication technology. Tele-audiology is a sub-branch of telemedicine. It refers to providing audiology s...
To assess satisfaction level of patients undergoing septorhinoplasty pre- and post-operatively using Rhinoplasty Outcome Evaluation (ROE) questionnaire.
Delayed post-traumatic bleeding at various sites is known due to vascular abnormalities related to structural changes in the vessel walls, in the form of pseudo aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations. Delay...
To study ECAP measures (threshold and amplitude growth function 'AGF') in children CI users and find the relation between these ECAP measures and speech outcomes using audiological and phonological assessment.
One of the most problematic issues of laryngeal carcinoma is recurrence after surgery one of the causes of recurrence this study tries to find its relevance is the peri neural invasion.
To find out the mean air conduction thresholds (ACT) and air–bone gap (ABG) closure across the treatment groups at the end of 3 and 6 months of follow-up.
Tonsillectomy is a common surgery to treat tonsillitis. In addition to cold dissection methods, other new methods are also used for tonsillectomy which has several advantages. We compared the cold dissection m...
Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is an allergic response characterized by type 2 inflammatory reactions mediated by T helper 2 cells (Th2). Th2 is characterized by elevated type 2 cytokines re...
Infections in neonates are mainly caused by sepsis and are the most important complications of low birth weight. In the treatment of these infections, it is common to use broad-spectrum antibiotics such as cho...
Ludwig’s angina is a diffuse cellulitis in the sub-mandibular space, which extends to the sublingual space. It is an emergency that often occurs in adults as a complication of oral infections. It is rare in ch...
India witnessed a massive surge of rhino orbital cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) cases during the second wave of COVID-19, recording the highest number of cases in the world, indeed, an epidemic within the pandemic.
Chronic suppurative otitis media is a major cause of hearing impairment and morbidity in poor socioeconomic developing countries.
Iatrogenic facial nerve injury is one of the otolaryngologists’ major fears during surgeries. Despite technological advances, the risk of iatrogenic facial nerve palsy remains high. The aim of this study is to...
The incidence of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC) is increasing. OTSCC is comparatively higher in our region owing to the consumption of tobacco, beetle nut, alcohol, and poor oral hygiene. There is...
The facial recess (FR) is the crucial landmark in posterior tympanotomy approach which is the conventional approach for cochlear implantation surgery. This work aimed to measure the facial recess width and len...
Esophageal foreign body impaction is one of the common reasons of referral to Ear Nose Throat clinic. It is a medical emergency requiring urgent evaluation and treatment. Esophageal foreign body in a very youn...
Giant cervico-parotid lipomas are rare entities. This is why we report in this article a case of a giant cervical lipoma extending to the parotid region.
Orbital pseudolymphoma is one of the rare diseases affecting the ocular adnexa and causing various symptoms requiring histopathological evidence for diagnosis and appropriate treatment with oral steroids or im...
Dysgraphia is one of the learning disabilities that require a complex set motor actions. It affects writing skills in the form of poor handwriting, spelling problems, and difficulty in writing thoughts and ide...
Nasopharyngeal tuberculosis constitutes 1% of the head and neck manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. The rarity of the disease along with its non-specific presentation may pose a challenge in diagnosis.
Trichoepithelioma is a rare benign tumor. It could be an inherited or acquired condition. Trichoepithelioma has mostly involved the face with bilateral multiple lesions. Involvement of the auricle by this tumo...
The aim of this study was to evaluate olfactory, gustatory, and quality-of-life outcomes in patients who underwent endonasal transsphenoidal hypophysectomy.
The objective of this study is to obtain normative data of the masseter vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (mVEMP) test in healthy individuals without hearing loss and dizziness and to compare the responses ...
Cyclic fluctuation levels of hormones in females during different phases of menstruation can lead to many favorable and unfavorable changes. Different researchers had investigated these changes and suggested t...
Sporotrichosis is a subcutaneous mycosis caused by a dimorphic fungus, Sporothrix schenckii infection, that usually results from the traumatic implantation of the fungus into the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Dis...
SOFT syndrome is characterized by prenatal onset growth retardation, brachydactyly, onychodysplasia, postpubertal onset hypotrichosis, normal psychomotor development, and facial dysmorphism including dolichoce...
Parapharyngeal Space tumors are rare tumors of the head and neck. They most commonly arise from the deep lobe of the parotid gland. Most of these tumors are in seen in adults and de novo origin from the minor ...
Hemangioendothelioma is a rare vascular tumor of the head and neck region characterized by proliferation of endothelial cells with epithelioid morphology. This is an indolent tumor known to appear during adult...
A pigmented lesion that progressively increases in size anywhere in the body is a matter of concern, and when it presents in the ear, it has various differential diagnosis, one among them being a benign nevus....
Broken tooth fragments that get lodged post trauma in oral cavity lacerations should not go unnoticed during primary care of the patient. Tooth fragments can act as a biological foreign body. Unnoticed foreign...
Score for Allergic Rhinitis (SFAR) is a validated self-administered questionnaire to assess for allergic rhinitis (AR) in a population setting but was designed for a temperate climate.
The use of a topical anticholinergic medication, ipratropium bromide, and its ability to inhibit methacholine and rhinitis-induced hypersecretion is emphasized. Ipratropium bromide appears to be both safe and ...
Cholesteatoma is an atticoantral disease that potentially causes life-threatening complications. Therefore, canal wall down mastoidectomy is a well-established technique to eradicate the disease, especially in...
Semantics is the study of meaning, and it pertains to the meanings of linguistic expressions such as words, phrases, grammatical forms, and sentences. Studying semantic development for preschool children has s...
Angiomatous polyp is a benign, non-neoplastic variant of antrochoanal polyp that is extremely uncommon.
Despite the high prevalence of locally advanced head and neck cancer, treatment failure in the form of a cutaneous deposit in the treatment field during radiation is not common. There has never been a cytology...
The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology is the official journal of The Egyptian Society of Otolaryngology
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