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Minimally invasive thyroidectomy (MIT) and parathyroidectomy (MIP) are gaining popularity in the current surgical practice. The need for specific equipment and technology is an obstacle in the low-resource env...
With the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, there has been a rapid upsurge in cases of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM). It is an opportunistic fungal infection associated with high morbidity and mortalit...
Pregnancy rhinitis (PR) is a relatively common condition with a prevalence of 20%. We aimed to identify the prevalence and risk factors of the PR. A prospective cohort study was conducted at the Obstetric and ...
Bipolar electrocautery tonsillectomy has been the preferred technique for many otolaryngologists, yet coblation tonsillectomy is gaining popularity in the current practice. This study aims at comparing both te...
Idiopathic acquired dacryocystocele in adults is a rare disorder of the lacrimal drainage pathway. Only 20 cases have been reported in the literature. It presents with a triad of epiphora, medial canthal swell...
Geotropic direction-changing positional nystagmus (DCPN) is transient in lateral semicircular canal (LSSK) canalolithiasis; it usually cuts off within a minute and fatigues. However, a “light cupula” mechanism...
Small-cell carcinoma (SMCC) of hypopharynx is an extreme rare entity in the head and neck region. It is commonly arising from pulmonary in origin. We report a rare case of small-cell carcinoma of hypopharynx t...
Association between leishmaniasis and malignancy can be classified into four categories: leishmaniasis mimicking malignancy, leishmaniasis co-existing with malignancy, malignancy developing in patients with le...
Isolated histiocytosis of thyroid region is very rare; clinical history, exam, and radiological aspects are non-specific, and etiological reasoning is quite difficult considering the tremendous number of diffe...
Liposarcomas are malignant tumours of adipocytic differentiation and their occurrence within the head and neck region is very uncommon. Lipomas are the most common types of benign mesenchymal tumours. The clin...
The most common radiologically detectable congenital inner ear anomaly is an enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA), which is associated with varying degrees of hearing loss and vestibular disorders. The purpose o...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acrylic bone cement in partial nasal bone reconstruction.
Dizziness, including vertigo, affects approximately 15% to over 20% of adults each year. A significant proportion of patients with vertigo develop secondary psychiatric disorders throughout their disease. On the ...
Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) which is considered a second-generation platelet-rich plasma having a high content of growth factors could be implied as a sealant and adjuvant to grafting materials during tympanopl...
During surgical planning for the excision of odontogenic cysts and tumors, surgeons should consider choosing the appropriate endoscopic approach to reach all parts of the maxillary sinus and cyst walls during ...
An attempt was made to study ENT manifestations in tuberculosis.
Osteitis and tissue remodeling are inflammatory processes associated with the severity of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). Nasal steroids are the mainly recommended therapeutics in the treatm...
Head injury most commonly occur following road traffic accidents. Often hearing loss and other otological injuries are missed in view of serious head injury or other visible bodily injuries, leading to delayed...
Acute invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (AIFRS) is a rare aggressive life-threatening infection that affects immunocompromised individuals. Recently, an increase in the incidence of this infection has been report...
This study aimed to understand the association of child behavior and parenting practices with chronic habitual hyperfunctional childhood dysphonia (CHCD) for a better understanding of the nature of the psychol...
Universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) has been widely adopted worldwide as a standard of care because it enables the detection of congenital hearing loss early in life. Therefore, the concepts of regular ...
Benign mesenchymal tumors are rare tumors accounting for 5% of all salivary gland tumors and less than 10% of submandibular or sublingual gland tumors.
The call center operation jobs are becoming a global phenomenon. The use of headphones for 7 to 9 h daily with varying noise level exposure is quite common among call center operators. This can cause structura...
To evaluate the effect of daclatasvir and sofosbuvir on auditory function in hepatitis C patients. Thirty hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients were included in this study with age ranged from 22 to 55 years. All p...
The study was performed to evaluate the changing trends in etiology and presenting features of vocal cord paralysis (VCP) from March 1998 to March 2020.
COVID-19-related olfactory dysfunction is an emerging problem with a significant impact on the quality of life of affected individuals. Different lines of treatment have been used with varying results. This st...
Acute sinusitis is not an uncommon disease that manifests with inflammation of the mucosal lining of the paranasal sinuses. It has varied etiologies including viral, bacterial, fungal, and allergic. Anatomical...
Lingual edema is usually the result of infectious etiology, angioedema, and less commonly of traumatic etiology.
This study aimed to assess the effect of pterygopalatine fossa injection via greater palatine canal with xylocaine and adrenaline on intra-operative surgical field bleeding and overall blood loss during FESS.
The present study aimed at determining the knowledge, attitude, and practice of ear care among Jazan population and its association with sociodemographic variables.
The retropalatal and retroglossal spaces are the main affected areas in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and they are the main targeted regions during OSA surgeries. But the dimensions of these spaces are sparsel...
Stroke affects all aspects of communication of patients by causing disorders of motor control (dysarthria or apraxia) or language (dysphasia) or both. The aim of this study is to evaluate language skills in pa...
Cervical lymphadenopathy in children is a common problem in daily clinical practice. Many cases of cervical lymphadenopathy after the COVID-19 vaccine were reported. However, there is no yet reporting a case o...
Endoscopic myringoplasty allows full visualization of the external ear canal, tympanic membrane, and middle ear without the need to reposition the patient’s head. The endoscope allows accessing hidden areas an...
Extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma (ENPA) has been stratified to nodules consisting of blood vessels and fibrous tissue, which occur outside the nasopharynx. ENPA is histologically similar to nasopharyngeal angi...
COVID-19 is the new version of the old coronavirus known since 1960, which caused the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) in 2012 and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003.
Patients presenting with a thyroid nodule, if malignant, may call for removal. A good screening tool with high diagnostic value for preoperative evaluation is preferred. Through real-time visualization of the ...
Lipomas are the most common benign mesenchymal tumors. They are defined as subcutaneous neoplasms of mature adipocyte cells that can occur wherever fatty tissue is. Lipomas are rare in the upper aerodigestive ...
Thyroid abscess is a rare entity and occurs in patients in a particular situation either in an immunocompromised patient or on tuberculosis infection since the African countries are still tuberculosis endemic ...
Endoscopic ear surgery (EES) is a growing and well-recognized field in the modern era. EES had a stepwise journey of development. This journey is pretty comparable to the endoscopic sinus surgery development.
There is a great geographic variation of extranodal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (NNKTL) prevalence, with a much higher prevalence in the Asian and South American populations. According to o...
Lobular capillary hemangioma (LCH) is a benign vascular tumor that rarely affects the nasal cavity. Pregnancy and previous nasal trauma or surgery might be implicated in the pathogenesis of this tumor. However...
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery is a common surgery done in otorhinolaryngology, but it is also riddled with complications. The most dangerous complication is the injury to the skull base leading to cerebr...
The use of endoscopic sinus surgery in the field of otorhinolaryngology is due to many reasons such as better visualization, the complex anatomy of the skull base and the relations between vital vascular and n...
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) frequently presents as extra-nodal involvement, although primary diffuse large B cell lymphoma of extra-nodal origin is a distinct entity. Different subtypes may have propensity for ...
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an abnormal polyclonal proliferation of Langerhans cells that affect different parts of the body. Temporal bone involvement is quite common among the involved sites. The ...
This study aims to investigate the advantages of canal wall reconstruction mastoidectomy (C.W.R.) over the canal wall down (CWD) mastoidectomy.
Neuroblastic tumors arise from primitive sympathetic ganglion cells and are the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood. Ganglioneuroma is the most well-differentiated, benign subtype and comprises l...
The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology is the official journal of The Egyptian Society of Otolaryngology
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