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  1. In otolaryngology outpatient clinics, patients frequently present with unilateral vocal cord paralysis (UVCP). During the pandemic, various new protocols were designed to identify UVCP. An experienced otolaryn...

    Authors: Anoushka Sahai, Hetal Marfatia, Ashwinikumar Gaikwad, Anushka Agarwal, Kartik Narkhede, Mruganayani Jadhav and Sanket Katkar
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:144
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  2. Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a swallowing disorder characterized by difficulty in transferring foods and/or liquids from the oral cavity to the stomach, affecting safe oral feeding. The main complications caused...

    Authors: Nihal Hisham Abdelhamid and Iman Mohamed Elrouby
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:143
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  3. Angiofibroma is a rare, histologically benign but locally aggressive vascular tumour that typically arises within the nasopharynx. Angiofibroma in sites other than the nasopharynx is extremely uncommon. Despit...

    Authors: Siew Chung Cheah, Eng Haw Lim, Rohaizam Japar, Murni Hartini Jais and Irfan Mohamad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:142
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  5. This research aims to develop an original understanding of the subject by examining how digital screen usage correlates with visual-vestibular system interaction and the vestibuloocular reflex mechanism using ...

    Authors: Özge Gedik Toker, Nida Tas Elibol, Özlem Erentürk, Songül Erdem, Meliha Başöz Behmen and Nilüfer Bal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:140
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  6. Septoplasty is a painful process. Nowadays, opioids and non-opioids are used to control patients’ pain, which has different efficacy and consequences. We aimed to assess the effect of preemptive gabapentin and...

    Authors: Rohollah Abbasi, Farnaz Hashemian, Mohammad Saeed Ahmadi, Javaneh Jahanshahi, Ebrahim Khoshraftar, Amin Karimian and Abbas Moradi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:139
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  7. The molecular makeup of a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) could vary as per the geography and corresponding variability in prevalent etiopathological factors. The objective of this study was to a...

    Authors: K. Devaraja, Suresh Pillai, Manna Valiathan, V. Geetha and Kailesh Pujary
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:138
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  8. This study aimed to identify the current practices and challenges faced by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in managing dysphagia among head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) in Malaysia.

    Authors: Husmeela Hussain, Kartini Ahmad, Zakinah Yahaya, Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh and Hasherah Mohd Ibrahim
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:137
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  9. Stuttering is a fluency disorder characterized by changes in speech flow caused by neuroaudiological factors linked to central auditory processing. We aimed to assess the affection of cortical auditory evoked ...

    Authors: Ashraf Mahmoud Khaled, Abeir Osman Dabbous, Aisha Fawzy Abdel Hady, Dina Moustafa Abdel Sabour and Rabab Ahmed Koura
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:136
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  10. Patients with orofacial cleft are at high risk for neurobehavioral problems including learning disability, impaired language function, psychosocial adjustment issues, and persistently reduced academic achievem...

    Authors: Essam-Eldin M. Aref, Zeinab A. Abdel Hameed and Hanan A. Mohamed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:135
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  11. Sebaceous carcinoma is an uncommon non-melanoma skin cancer. Extraocular sites are extremely rare, with only a few cases reported in the medical literature. This article reviews the diagnostic challenges and t...

    Authors: Arunabha Chakravarti, Prerna Negi, Parvendra Singh, Sneha Mary Sam and Kiran Agarwal
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:134
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  12. To identify and predict risk factors associated with recurrent spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea, a cohort study included a total of 37 adult patients with spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea were analyzed.

    Authors: Turkiya A. Maltan, Eman H. Salem, Ahmed Hemdan Eldeeb, Waleed Moneir and Yasser W. Khafagy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:133
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  13. Endoscopic septoplasty has become the preferred choice for septal surgeries for most surgeons due to its precise manipulation and reduced wear and tear. However, the improvement of the airway may vary dependin...

    Authors: Misbahul Haque, Titas Kar and Diptanshu Mukherjee
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:132
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  15. Stroke is a leading cause of disability and about a third of stroke survivors have aphasia. Stroke also may affect all levels of the auditory pathway and lead to hearing reception and/or perception deficits fo...

    Authors: Aisha Fawzy Abdel Hady, Sahar Saad Shohdi, Ayman Mohamed Shawky and Mohammed Ibrahem Abusenna
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:130
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  16. Osteomas are benign slow-growing tumors, which typically arise on the surface of the bone. They rarely arise from the temporal bone, accounting for 0.1–1% of all benign tumors of the skull. The external audito...

    Authors: Sunil Sam Varghese, Navneet Kumar, Preethi Anni Mercy Paul and Aashima Sethi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:129
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  17. Endoscopic ear surgery is a new, less invasive otologic procedure. Since 1990s, it has been grown in prominence because of anatomical and physiological theories. It offers a view of hidden places, avoids masto...

    Authors: Mo’men Ali Ameen Hamela, Osama Abd-Elnaseer, Mohamed Monir El-Dars and Adel El-Antably
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:128
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  18. The debate about which surgical technique for tonsillectomy could be superior over another is continuous. Tonsillectomy techniques are classified into cold and hot procedures. In cold techniques, no heat is us...

    Authors: Mosaad Abdel-Aziz, Ahmed Atef, Omar Aly Sabry, Ahmed Ibrahim Yousef, Ahmed Salah Ahmed, Ahmed Abo Hussien, Mohamed Abdel-Haleem and Amr Samir
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:127
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  19. Tinnitus is the perception of sound when there is no external sound stimulus. Individuals with tinnitus may have altered neurological system corresponding to the auditory pathway. Therefore, central auditory p...

    Authors: Sanjay S., Vibha Vinod and Chandni Jain
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:126
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  20. Older adults suffer from falls. 30% of the elderly fall annually in United States of America (Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 5:1-4 2020). Falls have also cost society and people heavily. The aim of this study i...

    Authors: Dalia Fahim Mohammed Fahim, Hisham Mahmoud Samy and Aisha Khaled Yousef
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:125
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  23. Frontal sinus carcinoma is commonly seen as an extension of the ethmoid sinus, overlying skin, or lacrimal gland. The existence of this disease has been unclear. We aimed to describe the occurrence of primary ...

    Authors: Mohamed Rifai, Maha Zaki and M. E. Abdelmalek
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:122
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  24. Automastoidectomy denotes extensive destruction of the middle ear cavity and the mastoid air cells, mimicking the appearance of a reminiscent image of the post-mastoidectomy cavity. This condition, although ra...

    Authors: Khalid Mahmoud Sayed Seedahmed, Tareq A. Y. Abujabal and Fatima Ayed Akoud
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:121
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  25. To evaluate the incidence of hearing loss in neonates in our secondary care hospital under pilot UNHS programme. To assess association between various risk factors and neonatal hearing loss.

    Authors: Vijay Rawat, Rubeena Arora, Jitendra Singh and Aradhana Gupta
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:120
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  26. Salvage surgery for hypopharyngeal cancer remains a major challenge, and only a few studies have been conducted. In this study, we review our 10 years of experience in treating patients with hypopharyngeal can...

    Authors: Adit Chotipanich
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:119
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  27. Olfactory dysfunction can be a troublesome condition affecting the quality of life of the patient. Post-viral olfactory dysfunction is the most common cause attributing to up to 40% of anosmia. COVID-19 infect...

    Authors: Hisham Lasheen and Mohamed Aly Abou-Zeid
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:118
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  28. Children are curious to learn and are always explorative. This exploration is sometimes by keeping things in the oral cavity resulting in cases of foreign body in the aerodigestive tract. Penetrating oropharyn...

    Authors: Manu Coimbatore Balakrishnan, Zareen A. Lynrah, Prachurya Tamuli and Anuradha Deka
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:117
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  29. Endoscopic sinus surgery is often challenging because of bleeding and pain. A variety of techniques have been explored to reduce surgical function and pain, with the sphenopalatine ganglion block showing the m...

    Authors: S. R. Janakan, Jagdeep S. Thakur, Ramesh K. Azad, Madhuri Dadwal, Gian Chauhan and Anamika Thakur
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:116
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  30. Inferior turbinate hypertrophy is a common cause of chronic nasal obstruction with many procedures for management including submucosal diathermy and coblation with a variation in their techniques. The aim of t...

    Authors: Tamer M. Attia and Ahmad M. Hamdan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:115
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  32. Neurofibromatosis type 1 is an autosomal dominant disorder with an incidence of 1 in 3000 births. Neurofibromas can occur anywhere in the body. Of all the head and neck tumours parapharyngeal space tumours con...

    Authors: Manu Coimbatore Balakrishnan, Abhijeet Bhatia, Anuradha Deka, Brian N Shunyu and Pranjal Phukan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:113
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  33. Pilomatrixoma is a rare benign tumor of the hair follicle. It is more common in children and women. The cervical and facial region are the most frequent location for this type of tumor. Due to its variable cli...

    Authors: Abdelilah Arioua, Anouar Benameur El Youbi, Naouar Ouattassi, Abdellatif Oudidi and Mohamed Noureddine El Amine El Alami
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:112
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  34. The retropharyngeal space is a deep compartment of the head and neck region which extends from the base of the skull to the mediastinum, between the posterior pharyngeal wall and vertebral muscles, delimited l...

    Authors: Gennaro Confuorto, Pasquale D’ Alessio, Pietro Antonini and Gabriele Molteni
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:111
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  35. There is an increasing incidence of sleep difficulties in Down syndrome children. Identifying the clinical symptoms that are correlated with sleep difficulties for early diagnosis and treatment is critical.

    Authors: Aisha Fawzy Abdel Hady, Rehab Abdel Hafeez Zaytoun, Mohamed Badie Taher and Mohammed Mamdouh Sayed-Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:110
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  36. Tumors in the pterygopalatine fossa (PPF) and infratemporal fossa (ITF) are still challenging to surgeons because of their deep location and proximity to various arteries and cranial nerves. This study aimed t...

    Authors: Essam A. Behairy, Neveen G. Barsem and Ashraf A. Eldemerdash
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:109
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  37. Different types of space-occupying lesions can arise from the nasal cavity and nasopharynx. They can be neoplastic (benign and malignant) or nonneoplastic lesions producing wide range of clinical symptoms. The...

    Authors: Ushma Patel, Hetal Chauhan and Nirmal Patel
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:108
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  38. Active squamous chronic otitis media (COM) is an entity with a deep retraction pocket of the pars tensa or flaccida that has retained debris of squamous epithelial where the fundus cannot be visualized involvi...

    Authors: Mithula Murali, Shraddha Jain, Vaidehi Hande, Chandraveer Singh, P. T. Deshmukh, Sagar Gaurkar, Smriti V. M and Nimisha Patil
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:107
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  39. As per WHO, the chronic inflammatory condition involving the middle ear and mastoid cavity, resulting in recurrent ear discharge, otherwise known as otorrhoea, through perforation of the eardrum or tympanic me...

    Authors: K. P. Basavaraju and S. K. Ranjani
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:106
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  40. Cerebral dominance refers to the biological description of the brain, where one cerebral hemisphere is dominant over the other in certain cerebral functions. There is scanty literature on cerebral dominance an...

    Authors: Banumathi, R Nethra, Brunda L. Raj and Kavassery Venkateswaran Nisha
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:105
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  43. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a common disease characterized by inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, with symptoms such as nasal blockage, facial pain, hyposmia, and headache. While these symptoms are ofte...

    Authors: Song Yeu Wong, Li Yun Lim, Ramiza Ramza Ramli and Ing Ping Tang
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:102
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. A salivary bypass tube (SBT) is a silicone tube that directs oral content from the mouth to the esophagus. We studied a series of seven cases of persistent and large neck fistulas of different aetiologies to a...

    Authors: Nurul Najwa Mohd Zakir, Zulkifli Yusof and Irfan Mohamad
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:101
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  45. Vertigo and dizziness are frequent clinical symptoms. Peripheral vertigo and central vertigo are two different types of vertigo that result from a disrupted vestibular system. Imbalance and dizziness are frequ...

    Authors: Manan Jhawar, Anurag Srivastava, Nirnay Kumar Keshree, Vishal Rattan Munjal and Ramji Pathak
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:100
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  46. Pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) is considered the most common suffering complication in laryngectomized patients. PCF occurs variably from 10 to 20% and sometimes reaches more than 60%, as a result of a combin...

    Authors: Sundus Ali Alsedra, Mohamed Abdelnaby Zahran, Ashraf Hamza Taha and Ahmed Sobhy Youssef
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:99
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  47. External auditory canal cholesteatoma (EACC) is a rare pathological condition representing 0.1% of all new otologic cases. Bilaterality manifests in 10% of EACC cases. Similar disease processes include keratos...

    Authors: Gerhard Johan Klopper and Claudio Favara
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:98
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  49. Infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presents with respiratory tract-related symptoms such as fever, cough, dyspnea, and chest tightness that could progress rapidly to acut...

    Authors: K. Karthikeyan, Kishore Kumar P., V. Ravisankar, A. Dayanand, Jeril Lasington and Jagannath Soundararajan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:96
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  50. 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%.

    Authors: Mina Fayez Saleeb, Sabry Magdy Sabry, Mohammad Salah Mahmoud and Mena Maher Nassif
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 2023 39:95
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