The Laryngoscope
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Multicenter Study
Revisits and postoperative hemorrhage after adult tonsillectomy.
Determine revisits and reasons for revisits after adult tonsillectomy. ⋯ 2b.
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Multicenter Study
Relationships between epistaxis, migraines, and triggers in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
To identify whether relationships exist between epistaxis and migraines in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), to potentially provide further preventative and therapeutic options for the debilitating nosebleeds that are often very difficult to manage in clinical practice. ⋯ 4.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Continuous vagal IONM prevents recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis by revealing initial EMG changes of impending neuropraxic injury: a prospective, multicenter study.
Existing intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) formats stimulate the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) intermittently, exposing it to risk for injury in between stimulations. We report electrophysiologic parameters of continuous vagal monitoring, utilizing a novel real-time IONM format, and relate these parameters to intraoperative surgical maneuvers that delineate nascent adverse but reversible electrophysiologic parameters to prevent nerve injury. These results are correlated with postoperative vocal cord functional outcome. ⋯ 4.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Sleep surgery and medical malpractice.
To describe and analyze the causes and outcomes of lawsuits pertaining to sleep surgery to mitigate future litigation and improve physician education. ⋯ 2c.
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Multicenter Study
Superior laryngeal nerve quantitative intraoperative monitoring is possible in all thyroid surgeries.
To report normative electromyography (EMG) data on the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (EBSLN) and to compare this to analogous data of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and vagus nerve (VN) during intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) using both the standard monopolar stimulator probe and a novel bipolar stimulator probe. ⋯ 4.