[Acta otorrinolaringologica española: objectives for the years to come].
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Biomedical subjects
M Quer Agustí
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[Vocal rehabilitation of the laryngectomized patient using tracheo-esophageal puncture and phonatory prosthesis].
We present the results of 25 tracheo-esophageal punctures (20 primary and 5 secondary) followed by insertion of a voice prosthesis, as a method of voice restoration after total laryngectomy. This method is compared with the other three commonly used (tracheo-esophageal fistuloplasty, esophageal voice, and electrolarynx), and a personal variation (Burgués) of the primary tracho-esophageal puncture technique is presented.
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[Cancer of the hypopharynx: clinical and epidemiological data on 41 cases].
The clinical and epidemiological data of 41 hypopharyngeal neoplasms diagnosed at the Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital de "La Santa Cruz y San Pablo", Barcelona, are analysed according to eleven computerized parameters. Our results are compared with those appeared in the literature. Though the are close similarities with regard to incidence, sex, tobacco and alcohol consumption, presentation, and histology, our patients are younger and in a better condition than it is generally accepted.
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[Polymorphic reticulosis. Clinical cases].
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[Active duration: new parameters in quantitative assessment of post-caloric nystagmus].
This study describes a new parameter for quantifying the post-caloric nystagmus, the active duration, or the total periods where appropriate nystagmic response existed due to caloric stimulation. On a pathological population of 211 cases, the new parameter records a diagnostic sensitivity of 56% for the canal paresis and 59% for the directional preponderance, improving the sensitivity levels corresponding to the duration of the response according to classical criterion. Being easy to calculate, the active duration parameter is considered to be appropriate for the quantity valoration of the post-caloric nystagmus by means of computerized technics.
Adolescent↗
[Laryngocele: clinical and therapeutic study of 60 cases].
Sixty patients with laryngocele were diagnosed in the last seven years: 25 of them without previous laryngeal pathology (group A) and the rest 35 with laryngeal or pharyngeal cancer (group B). The laryngocele was unilateral in the majority of the 25 patients of group A (68%). The internal laryngoceles were the most common type (63%). The initial symptom was hoarseness in 56% of these patients and 20% developed, in their evolution, an acute respiratory distress. The diagnosis was clinical in 16 patients and radiological in the rest. Endoscopically marsupialization with laser-CO2 was performed to remove internal laryngoceles. The mixed and external laryngoceles were completely removed via an external cervical approach without the need to perform any thyrotomy. The diagnosis was radiological by CT in the 35 patients of the group B. In 30 of them the CT was performed to evaluate the local extension of the laryngeal or pharyngeal cancer before its treatment. Supraglottic carcinoma was the most common laryngeal tumor (50%). The anatomic relationship between laryngocele and laryngeal cancer was ipsilateral to each other only in 50% of the patients. In the other 5 patients, no laryngocele was found in the radiological study previous to the treatment of the laryngeal or pharyngeal cancer. The diagnosis was made after chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment.
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