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Caring for our patients while taking care of our own safety as well as theirs is a major concern during the current pandemic. Therefore, many societies developed guidance documents to educate clinicians about ...
Hearing assessment after middle ear surgery has always been of interest to otologists for one of its major unavoidable and unpredictable complication is hearing loss. As the initial indication for operation is...
The aim of this study is to explore the different kinds of endolymphatic hydrops and the sensitivity of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) and electrocochleography in their diagnosis. Three groups of...
Gradually stepped decannulation, such as capping with fenestrated tubes or tube downsizing, is likely to prolong the decannulation process. The purpose of the study is to determine the differences in laryngeal...
Chronic otitis media is defined as a chronic inflammation of the middle ear cleft producing irreversible pathological changes. The myringoplasty aims at the reconstruction of the tympanic membrane using a graf...
The current study aimed at constructing an Arabic-language questionnaire to investigate the association of the severity of ADHD with children’s degree of exposure to multimedia per day and the age of starting ...
Scuba diving has become a popular hobby. However, diving puts the auditory system at the risk of a wide variety of complaints including tinnitus. Low-level laser therapy is a new modality in treatment of tinni...
Pleomorphic adenomas are common tumors of major salivary glands. However, the localization in nasal cavity originating from the lateral wall is exceptional.
Using different methodologies, several researchers have reported certain acoustical and physiological differences between fluent utterances of stutterers and normally fluent speakers. The aim of this study was...
This prospective case-control study was conducted from June 2018 to October 2019 in a tertiary referral hospital to investigate the correlation between otitis media with effusion (OME) and serum vitamin D leve...
To evaluate the prevalence of olfactory dysfunction (OD) in the Indian population and to establish olfactory dysfunction as a screening tool in COVID-19-positive patients. Data was collected using a questionna...
Tension pneumocephalus is an increasing air trapped intracranially. Either spontaneous, post-traumatic or iatrogenic in origin. Cystic angiomatosis is a benign vascular hamartoma of the skeleton, when acquired...
H syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in SLC29A3. Hyperpigmentation, hypertrichosis, hyperglycemia, and hearing loss are some characteristics of this disorder, and it has a prevalen...
Allergic rhinitis (AR) or Hay fever is a chronic inflammation of the nasal mucosa induced by IgE-mediated hypersensitivity due to exposure of various allergens. AR occurs as a response against these inhaled al...
Adenoidal hypertrophy is a common condition in children and can cause symptoms such as mouth breathing, nasal discharge, snoring, sleep apnea, and hyponasal speech. The curettage adenoidectomy has some disadva...
Migraine is a neurological disease associated with abnormal excitability in visual, somatosensory, and motor cortex. This study aimed to verify and compare auditory processing performance in migraine patients ...
Foreign body inclusions are rare in head and neck. They are challenging in regard to anatomical risks and surgical approaches. This is the case of a particular foreign body with a curious trajectory, associate...
Retro-maxillary recess of the sphenoid sinus is an area that is yet to have appropriate description in the literature and usually overlooked. The objective of the current study was to determine the incidence and ...
It is estimated that about 15% of students have transient hearing loss worldwide sufficient enough to interfere with communication, psychosocial relationship, and learning resulting in poor educational achieve...
Retropharyngeal abscess (RPA) is a life-threatening, dangerous condition and uncommon in adults. The coexistence of RPA, cervical spinal epidural abscess (CSEA), and spondylodiscitis is extremely rare.
Chronic otitis media is one of the major health issues worldwide resulting in partial or complete loss of conductive hearing mechanism including the tympanic membrane and ossicular assembly. The aim of the stu...
Tietz syndrome is a very rare clinical entity characterized by the association of profound bilateral congenital sensorineural deafness and generalized hypopigmentation of skin, eyes, and integuments (snow whit...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development. Although childr...
This study aims to report the rate of occult lymph node metastasis during elective neck dissection in clinically and radiologically negative neck (cN0) for patients offered total laryngectomy as either primary...
Tympanic membrane grafting is one of the most common otological procedures. Underlay technique of tympanoplasty was described by Shea in 1960. Utech in 1959 introduce the cartilage in middle ear surgery. The s...
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often report that their children have multiple dietary behavior problems than parents of typically developing (TD) children do. This may affect proper ...
Though surgery can correct nasal septal defects through a procedure called septoplasty, many people seek non-surgical options. Papain enzyme has been used in the past to lyse intervertebral disc and has shown ...
Spontaneous regression of squamous cell carcinoma is extremely rare and a very challenging phenomenon. Here, we are presenting such a rare case of biopsy-proven laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent ...
The purpose of the study was to evaluate survival outcomes in post-operative oral tongue cancer patients undergoing adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) at a tertiary cancer care center and to critically review the impa...
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures in otorhinolaryngology practice where analgesics are required for pain-relief especially in children. To compare the efficacy of using peritonsillar infiltrat...
This study was to investigate the frequency of self-reported dizziness symptom in cases with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and the severity of dizziness, if any, by using various scales. The frequency...
It could be of great benefit to determine smell and taste dysfunction in COVID-19 patients and to investigate the relationship between these symptoms and clinical characteristics as the determination of points...
Primary malignant tumours of the retropharyngeal space are rare with only a few case reports in the literature. Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma is a rare subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is very rarely found as ...
Although dysphonia is a common symptom in children, there is lack of mass screening studies to cover its prevalence rate in the Egyptian Alexandrian schools. The aim of the work was to screen Alexandrian schoo...
Viral infection is the most common cause of salivary gland swelling as mumps which mainly affects the parotid glands. Sialolithiasis is another cause of obstruction of the salivary duct. A tumor is another cau...
Mastoidectomy is one of the common surgical procedures performed by the otologist. It is commonly done for cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media (CCOM) and can be performed as either canal wall up or down tec...
The authors present an unusual, unreported oral adverse effect of COVID-19 vaccine as palatal petechiae lesions.
The inner ear vascular system may be disrupted by systemic hypertension causing inner ear hemorrhage and resulting in progressive or sudden hearing loss. Constriction of the labyrinthine artery secondary to at...
Many nasal pathological findings have been described with antrochoanal polyp (ACP). We aimed in this study to assess the prevalence of adenoid hypertrophy among children presented with ACP and to evaluate the ...
One third of all head and neck cancers are caused by laryngeal cancer. However, the incidence and prevalence rates have decreased over the past 3 decades. Neck metastasis from cancer larynx is important to be ...
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the uncommon tumours and the most difficult tumour to diagnose at an earlier stage due to the clandestine and deceptive nature. The incidence is more common in men with a pea...
Complicated cervico-facial cellulitis is an infectious disease which can have fatal prognosis. Necrotizing descending mediastinitis is a rare and fatal complication of cervico-thoracic cellulitis. This is the ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the pandemic of COVID-19 infection in March 2020, most of cases presented with mild symptoms, and a significant number of cases showed variable neurological pic...
The Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) scale has been developed and validated in English to overcome the controversies concerning other methods of evaluation of nasal obstruction. The scale is current...
Nasal nitric oxide (nNO), a noninvasive indicator for eosinophilic airway inflammation, has not been adequately studied in different types of rhinitis. The aim of this study was to compare nNO levels between a...
Eosinophils are bone marrow-derived granulocytes known to have an imperative role in tissue inflammation. The mechanism of tumour-associated tissue eosinophilia (TATE) in head and neck cancers is however not w...
Temporalis fascia and perichondrium are still the most successful graft materials for primary microscopic repair of tympanic membrane perforations worldwide with 80% to 90% success rate. However, minimally inv...
Aural atresia (CAA) is a congenital abnormality with hypoplasia or aplasia of the external auditory canal. Surgical procedures of CAA is not only difficult but has still not been embraced by surgeons. Many sur...
The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology is the official journal of The Egyptian Society of Otolaryngology
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