The Year Book of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in otolaryngology, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Topics in the Year Book include allergy and immunology; head and neck surgery and tumors; laryngology; otology; pediatric otolaryngology; rhinology and skull base surgery; and thyroid and parathyroid.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Allergy and Immunology - p. 6 5. General - p. 6 6. Allergy-related outcomes in relation to serum IgE: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006 - p. 6 7. Evidence for intranasal antinuclear autoantibodies in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps - p. 7 8. Subcutaneous immunotherapy and pharmacotherapy in seasonal allergic rhinitis: A comparison based on meta-analyses - p. 8 9. Head and Neck Surgery and Tumors - p. 9 10. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 9 11. Anatomic distribution of cervical lymph node spread in parotid carcinoma - p. 9 12. A meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials on elective neck dissection versus therapeutic neck dissection in oral cavity cancers with clinically node-negative neck - p. 10 13. Evaluation of human papillomavirus testing for squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil in clinical practice - p. 11 14. Clinical utility of PET/CT in the evaluation of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with an unknown primary: A prospective clinical trial - p. 12 15. Role of panendoscopy to identify synchronous second primary malignancies in patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma - p. 13 16. Cognitive functioning after radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer - p. 14 17. Carcinoma of unknown primary in the head and neck: comparison between positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT - p. 15 18. Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Oropharyngeal Cancers in Lymph Nodes as a Marker of Metastases - p. 16 19. Reevaluation of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease as a Risk Factor for Laryngeal Cancer - p. 17 20. Accuracy of whole-body PET and PET-CT in initial M staging of head and neck cancer: A meta-analysis - p. 18 21. Tumor Depth as a Predictor of Lymph Node Metastasis of Supraglottic and Hypopharyngeal Cancers - p. 19 22. When to Manage Level V in Head and Neck Carcinoma? - p. 20 23. General - p. 21 24. Human papillomavirus infections in laryngeal cancer - p. 21 25. Central compartment dissection in laryngeal cancer - p. 22 26. Current Practice Patterns in the Management of Glottic Cancer in Canada: Results of a National Survey - p. 23 27. Differential Diagnosis of Cystic Neck Lesions - p. 24 28. Review of Thromboprophylaxis in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery - p. 25 29. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck metastasizing to the parotid gland—A review of current recommendations - p. 26 30. Human Papillomavirus and Rising Oropharyngeal Cancer Incidence in the United States - p. 27 31. Management of the Clinically Negative Neck in Early-Stage Head and Neck Cancers After Transoral Resection - p. 28 32. The Increasing Workload in Head and Neck Surgery: An Epidemiologic Analysis - p. 29 33. Outcomes - p. 30 34. Surgical salvage of the oropharynx after failure of organ-sparing therapy - p. 30 35. Comparison of Endoscopic Laser Resection versus Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Early Glottic Carcinoma - p. 31 36. Human papillomavirus and survival in patients with base of tongue cancer - p. 32 37. Transoral Laser Microsurgery as Primary Treatment for Advanced-Stage Oropharyngeal Cancer: A United States Multicenter Study - p. 33 38. Radiotherapy - p. 34 39. Surgical Technique - p. 35 40. Feasibility of submandibular gland preservation in neck dissection: A prospective anatomic-pathologic study - p. 35 41. Questionable necessity to remove the submandibular gland in neck dissection - p. 36 42. Laryngology - p. 37 43. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 37 44. Effect of Altered Core Body Temperature On Glottal Closing Force - p. 37 45. Continuous Control of Tracheal Cuff Pressure and Microaspiration of Gastric Contents in Critically Ill Patients - p. 38 46. Heat and moisture exchange capacity of the upper respiratory tract and the effect of tracheotomy breathing on endotracheal climate - p. 39 47. A New Noninvasive Method for Determination of Laryngeal Sensory Function - p. 40 48. A Murine Model of Airway Granulation and Subglottic Stenosis - p. 41 49. Evidence of Extraesophageal Reflux in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis - p. 42 50. A Large Animal Model of the Fetal Tracheal Stenosis/Atresia Spectrum - p. 43 51. A Novel Bioabsorbable Drug-Eluting Tracheal Stent - p. 44 52. Acute Stress to Excised Vocal Fold Epithelium From Reactive Oxygen Species - p. 45 53. Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Cryopreserved Trachea Allograft Epithelium Regeneration and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression - p. 46 54. Vocal fold wound healing after injection of human adipose-derived stem cells in a rabbit model - p. 47 55. Airway epithelial wounds in rhesus monkey generate ionic currents that guide cell migration to promote healing - p. 48 56. Effect of Fibrin Glue on Collagen Deposition After Autologous Fascia Grafting in Rabbit Vocal Folds - p. 49 57. Validity and Efficacy of a Pediatric Airway Foreign Body Training Course in Resident Education - p. 50 58. Efficacy of Large-Diameter Dilatation in Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction - p. 51 59. General - p. 52 60. “Thumb Sign” of Epiglottitis - p. 52 61. Acute Supraglottitis in Adults in Finland: Review and Analysis of 308 Cases - p. 53 62. Classical reflux symptoms, hiatus hernia and overweight independently predict pharyngeal acid exposure in patients with suspected reflux laryngitis - p. 54 63. Chronic cough and irritable larynx - p. 55 64. A Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Reflux Disease: Toward Creating a Clinical Protocol for the Otolaryngologist - p. 56 65. Advances in Office-Based Diagnosis and Treatment in Laryngology - p. 57 66. Arytenoid Dislocation: An Analysis of the Contemporary Literature - p. 58 67. Botulinum Toxin Treatment of Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia: Longitudinal Functional Outcomes - p. 59 68. Comparison of Sonography and Computed Tomography as Imaging Tools for Assessment of Airway Structures - p. 60 69. Outcomes - p. 61 70. Surgical Technique - p. 62 71. Injection Medialization Laryngoplasty in Children - p. 62 72. A New and Less Invasive Procedure for Arytenoid Adduction Surgery: Endoscopic-Assisted Arytenoid Adduction Surgery - p. 63 73. External light guidance for percutaneous dilatational tracheotomy - p. 64 74. Cervical tracheal resection with cricotracheal anastomosis: experience in adults with grade III–IV tracheal stenosis - p. 65 75. Coblation Removal of Laryngeal Teflon Granulomas - p. 66 76. Otology - p. 67 77. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 67 78. Speech perception in individuals with auditory dys-synchrony - p. 67 79. The vascularization of the human cochlea: its historical background - p. 68 80. Oxygen consumption by bacteria: a possible cause of negative middle ear pressure in ears with otitis media - p. 69 81. Influence of lipoproteins and fibrinogen on pathogenesis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss - p. 70 82. Development of an auditory implant manipulator for minimally invasive surgical insertion of implantable hearing devices - p. 71 83. Comparison between bone-conducted ultrasound and audible sound in speech recognition - p. 72 84. Clinical characteristics and audiological significance of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in tinnitus patients with normal hearing - p. 73 85. Abnormal Motion Perception in Vestibular Migraine - p. 74 86. Diagnostics - p. 75 87. External Ear, Middle Ear and Mastoid - p. 76 88. Isolated itching of external auditory canal: clinicopathological study with immunohistochemical determination of antimicrobial peptides - p. 76 89. Role of mitomycin C in reducing keloid recurrence: patient series and literature review - p. 77 90. To Pack or Not to Pack? A Contemporary Review of Middle Ear Packing Agents - p. 78 91. Contributing Factors in the Pathogenesis of Acquired Cholesteatoma: Size Analysis Based on MDCT - p. 79 92. Surgical management of troublesome mastoid cavities - p. 80 93. Total Ossiculoplasty in Children: Predictive Factors and Long-Term Follow-up - p. 81 94. Facial Nerve and Skull Base - p. 82 95. Facial Nerve Decompression Surgery in Patients With Temporal Bone Trauma: Analysis of 66 Cases - p. 82 96. Treatment of Facial Paralysis: Dynamic Reanimation of Spontaneous Facial Expression—Apropos of 655 Patients - p. 83 97. Evoked Potential Monitoring Identifies Possible Neurological Injury During Positioning for Craniotomy - p. 84 98. Endolympathic hydrops in patients with vestibular schwannoma: visualization by non-contrast-enhanced 3D FLAIR - p. 85 99. Prediction of Vestibular Schwannoma Growth: A Novel Rule Based on Clinical Symptomatology - p. 86 100. Clinicopathological factors related to regrowth of vestibular schwannoma after incomplete resection - p. 87 101. Long-term outcomes of vestibular schwannomas treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy: An institutional experience - p. 88 102. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannomas: Identification of Predictors for Continued Tumor Growth and the Influence of Documented Tumor Growth Preceding Radiation Treatment - p. 89 103. Malignancy in Vestibular Schwannoma after Stereotactic Radiotherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature - p. 90 104. General - p. 91 105. Association of age-related macular degeneration with age-related hearing loss - p. 91 106. Prognosis of patients with idiopathic sudden hearing loss: role of vestibular assessment - p. 92 107. Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct: Review of Controversial Aspects - p. 93 108. Investigation of the Coherence of Definite and Probable Vestibular Migraine as Distinct Clinical Entities - p. 94 109. What Is the Effect of Time Between Sequential Cochlear Implantations on Hearing in Adults and Children? A Systematic Review of the Literature - p. 95 110. Estimation of factors influencing the results of tinnitus retraining therapy - p. 96 111. Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials Examining Tinnitus Management - p. 97 112. Outcomes - p. 98 113. Surgical Treatment of the Periocular Complex and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients With Facial Paralysis - p. 98 114. Taste disturbance after stapes surgery–clinical and experimental study - p. 99 115. Effect of Type I Tympanoplasty on the Quality of Life of Children - p. 100 116. Surgical Technique - p. 101 117. Outcome of the Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid Procedure Without Skin Thinning: A Prospective Clinical Trial - p. 101 118. Hyaluronic Acid Fat Graft Myringoplasty: An Office-Based Technique Adapted to Children - p. 102 119. Pediatric Otolaryngology - p. 103 120. Airway - p. 103 121. Bronchoscopy versus multi-detector computed tomography in the diagnosis of congenital vascular ring - p. 103 122. Common and uncommon vascular rings and slings: a multi-modality review - p. 104 123. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 105 124. General - p. 106 125. Acute otitis media–induced petrous apicitis presenting as the Gradenigo syndrome: successfully treated by ventilation tube insertion - p. 106 126. Ophthalmic complications of otitis media in children - p. 107 127. Otitis media with effusion with or without atopy: audiological findings on primary schoolchildren - p. 108 128. Do-it-yourself grommets - p. 109 129. Dexamethasone and Postoperative Bleeding Risk After Adenotonsillectomy in Children - p. 110 130. Changes in Heart Rate Variability After Adenotonsillectomy in Children With Obstructive Sleep Apnea - p. 111 131. Adverse effects of propranolol when used in the treatment of hemangiomas: A case series of 28 infants - p. 112 132. Current Treatment of Parotid Hemangiomas - p. 113 133. Button battery ingestion: The greek experience and review of the literature - p. 114 134. Living With a Craniofacial Condition: Development of the Craniofacial Experiences Questionnaire (CFEQ) for Adolescents and Their Parents - p. 115 135. Outcomes - p. 116 136. Does Concomitant Mastoidectomy Improve Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Repair of Tympanic Membrane Perforations? - p. 116 137. A Prospective Study of the Effect of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatment on Children With Otitis Media - p. 117 138. Can We Predict a Difficult Intubation in Cleft Lip/Palate Patients? - p. 118 139. Adenotonsillectomy improves slow-wave activity in children with obstructive sleep apnoea - p. 119 140. Incidence of Revision Adenoidectomy in Children - p. 120 141. Accuracy of prenatal three-dimensional ultrasound in the diagnosis of cleft hard palate when cleft lip is present - p. 121 142. Efficacy of Neonatal Release of Ankyloglossia: A Randomized Trial - p. 122 143. Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery - p. 123 144. Basic and Clinical Reearch - p. 123 145. Empty Nose Syndrome: Limbic System Activation Observed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - p. 123 146. Efficacy of using a hydrodebrider and of citric acid/zwitterionic surfactant on a Staphylococcus aureus bacterial biofilm in the sheep model of rhinosinusitis - p. 124 147. Mepolizumab, a humanized anti–IL-5 mAb, as a treatment option for severe nasal polyposis - p. 125 148. Evidence for Distinct Histologic Profile of Nasal Polyps With and Without Eosinophilia - p. 126 149. Immunohistochemical Characterization of Human Olfactory Tissue - p. 127 150. Histological features of the nasal mucosa in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation - p. 128 151. General - p. 129 152. Revisiting Human Nose Anatomy: Phylogenic and Ontogenic Perspectives - p. 129 153. Exostoses of the Paranasal Sinuses - p. 130 154. The natural history of epistaxis in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in the Norwegian population: A cross-sectional study - p. 131 155. Sinonasal Malignancies in Children: A 10-Year, Single-Institutional Review - p. 132 156. Do Biofilms Contribute to the Initiation and Recalcitrance of Chronic Rhinosinusitis? - p. 133 157. Regional and Specialty Variations in the Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis - p. 134 158. Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in Smokers and Nonsmokers - p. 135 159. Paranasal sinus computed tomography anatomy: a surgeon’s perspective - p. 136 160. Sphenoid sinus fungus ball: Our experience - p. 137 161. Paranasal sinus mucoceles with ophthalmologic manifestations: A 17-year review of 96 cases - p. 138 162. A new approach to the treatment of nasal bone fracture: The clinical usefulness of closed reduction using a C-arm - p. 139 163. Lack of efficacy of long-term, low-dose azithromycin in chronic rhinosinusitis: a randomized controlled trial - p. 140 164. Adjuvant therapy with flutamide for presurgical volume reduction in juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma - p. 141 165. Postoperative Care for Samter's Triad Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: A Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial - p. 142 166. Outcomes - p. 143 167. Olfactory Outcomes After Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery - p. 143 168. Complications in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A 25-Year Experience - p. 144 169. Contemporary Management of Sinonasal Cancer - p. 145 170. Association between severity of asthma and degree of chronic rhinosinusitis - p. 146 171. Evidence-based applications of mitomycin C in the nose - p. 147 172. Health State Utility Values in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Sinus Surgery - p. 148 173. Silent sinus syndrome: dynamic changes in the position of the orbital floor after restoration of normal sinus pressure - p. 149 174. Surgical Technique - p. 150 175. The Frontal Intersinus Septum Takedown Procedure: Revisiting a Technique for Surgically Refractory Unilateral Frontal Sinus Disease - p. 150 176. Study of the Nasoseptal Flap for Endoscopic Anterior Cranial Base Reconstruction - p. 151 177. Endoscopic Maxillary Antrostomy: Not Just a Simple Procedure - p. 152 178. Endoscopic devascularisation of sphenopalatine bundle in intractable posterior epistaxis: technique, efficacy and safety - p. 153 179. Hot water irrigation as treatment for intractable posterior epistaxis in an out-patient setting - p. 154 180. Endoscopic Transvestibular Paramandibular Exploration of the Infratemporal Fossa and Parapharyngeal Space: A Minimally Invasive Approach to the Middle Cranial Base - p. 155 181. A balloon dilatation technique for the treatment of intramaxillary lesions using a Foley catheter in chronic maxillary sinusitis - p. 156 182. Antegrade transsphenoidal vidian neurectomy: Short-term surgical outcome analysis - p. 157 183. Coblation-assisted endonasal endoscopic resection of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma - p. 158 184. Thyroid and Parathyroid - p. 159 185. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 159 186. Central Lymph Node Metastasis of Unilateral Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Patterns and Factors Predictive of Nodal Metastasis, Morbidity, and Recurrence - p. 159 187. An Analysis of Factors Predicting Lateral Cervical Nodal Metastases in Papillary Carcinoma of the Thyroid - p. 160 188. Clinical and Molecular Features of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults - p. 161 189. Diagnostics - p. 162 190. Clinical Implications of Bilateral Lateral Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Risk Factor for Lung Metastasis - p. 162 191. Role of core needle biopsy and ultrasonographic finding in management of indeterminate thyroid nodules - p. 163 192. Outcomes - p. 164 193. Does Mediastinal Extension of the Goiter Increase Morbidity of Total Thyroidectomy? A Multicenter Study of 19,662 Patients - p. 164 194. Disease-Related Death in Patients Who Were Considered Free of Macroscopic Disease After Initial Treatment of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma - p. 165 195. Central Compartment Reoperation for Recurrent/Persistent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Patterns of Recurrence, Morbidity, and Prediction of Postoperative Hypocalcemia - p. 166 196. Initial therapy with either thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy without radioactive iodine remnant ablation is associated with very low rates of structural disease recurrence in properly selected patients with differentiated thyroid cancer - p. 167 197. Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Ethanol Injection Treatment in Patients with a Limited Number of Metastatic Cervical Lymph Nodes from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma - p. 168 198. Surgical Technique - p. 169 199. Loupe Magnification Reduces Postoperative Hypocalcemia after Total Thyroidectomy - p. 169 200. Randomized clinical trial on harmonic Focus shears versus clamp-and-tie technique for total thyroidectomy - p. 170 201. Meta-analysis of Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy - p. 171
The Year Book of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in otolaryngology, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Topics in the Year Book include allergy and immunology; head and neck surgery and tumors; laryngology; otology; pediatric otolaryngology; rhinology and skull base surgery; and thyroid and parathyroid.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Allergy and Immunology - p. 6 5. General - p. 6 6. Allergy-related outcomes in relation to serum IgE: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006 - p. 6 7. Evidence for intranasal antinuclear autoantibodies in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps - p. 7 8. Subcutaneous immunotherapy and pharmacotherapy in seasonal allergic rhinitis: A comparison based on meta-analyses - p. 8 9. Head and Neck Surgery and Tumors - p. 9 10. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 9 11. Anatomic distribution of cervical lymph node spread in parotid carcinoma - p. 9 12. A meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials on elective neck dissection versus therapeutic neck dissection in oral cavity cancers with clinically node-negative neck - p. 10 13. Evaluation of human papillomavirus testing for squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil in clinical practice - p. 11 14. Clinical utility of PET/CT in the evaluation of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with an unknown primary: A prospective clinical trial - p. 12 15. Role of panendoscopy to identify synchronous second primary malignancies in patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma - p. 13 16. Cognitive functioning after radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer - p. 14 17. Carcinoma of unknown primary in the head and neck: comparison between positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT - p. 15 18. Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Oropharyngeal Cancers in Lymph Nodes as a Marker of Metastases - p. 16 19. Reevaluation of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease as a Risk Factor for Laryngeal Cancer - p. 17 20. Accuracy of whole-body PET and PET-CT in initial M staging of head and neck cancer: A meta-analysis - p. 18 21. Tumor Depth as a Predictor of Lymph Node Metastasis of Supraglottic and Hypopharyngeal Cancers - p. 19 22. When to Manage Level V in Head and Neck Carcinoma? - p. 20 23. General - p. 21 24. Human papillomavirus infections in laryngeal cancer - p. 21 25. Central compartment dissection in laryngeal cancer - p. 22 26. Current Practice Patterns in the Management of Glottic Cancer in Canada: Results of a National Survey - p. 23 27. Differential Diagnosis of Cystic Neck Lesions - p. 24 28. Review of Thromboprophylaxis in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery - p. 25 29. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck metastasizing to the parotid gland—A review of current recommendations - p. 26 30. Human Papillomavirus and Rising Oropharyngeal Cancer Incidence in the United States - p. 27 31. Management of the Clinically Negative Neck in Early-Stage Head and Neck Cancers After Transoral Resection - p. 28 32. The Increasing Workload in Head and Neck Surgery: An Epidemiologic Analysis - p. 29 33. Outcomes - p. 30 34. Surgical salvage of the oropharynx after failure of organ-sparing therapy - p. 30 35. Comparison of Endoscopic Laser Resection versus Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Early Glottic Carcinoma - p. 31 36. Human papillomavirus and survival in patients with base of tongue cancer - p. 32 37. Transoral Laser Microsurgery as Primary Treatment for Advanced-Stage Oropharyngeal Cancer: A United States Multicenter Study - p. 33 38. Radiotherapy - p. 34 39. Surgical Technique - p. 35 40. Feasibility of submandibular gland preservation in neck dissection: A prospective anatomic-pathologic study - p. 35 41. Questionable necessity to remove the submandibular gland in neck dissection - p. 36 42. Laryngology - p. 37 43. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 37 44. Effect of Altered Core Body Temperature On Glottal Closing Force - p. 37 45. Continuous Control of Tracheal Cuff Pressure and Microaspiration of Gastric Contents in Critically Ill Patients - p. 38 46. Heat and moisture exchange capacity of the upper respiratory tract and the effect of tracheotomy breathing on endotracheal climate - p. 39 47. A New Noninvasive Method for Determination of Laryngeal Sensory Function - p. 40 48. A Murine Model of Airway Granulation and Subglottic Stenosis - p. 41 49. Evidence of Extraesophageal Reflux in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis - p. 42 50. A Large Animal Model of the Fetal Tracheal Stenosis/Atresia Spectrum - p. 43 51. A Novel Bioabsorbable Drug-Eluting Tracheal Stent - p. 44 52. Acute Stress to Excised Vocal Fold Epithelium From Reactive Oxygen Species - p. 45 53. Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Cryopreserved Trachea Allograft Epithelium Regeneration and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression - p. 46 54. Vocal fold wound healing after injection of human adipose-derived stem cells in a rabbit model - p. 47 55. Airway epithelial wounds in rhesus monkey generate ionic currents that guide cell migration to promote healing - p. 48 56. Effect of Fibrin Glue on Collagen Deposition After Autologous Fascia Grafting in Rabbit Vocal Folds - p. 49 57. Validity and Efficacy of a Pediatric Airway Foreign Body Training Course in Resident Education - p. 50 58. Efficacy of Large-Diameter Dilatation in Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction - p. 51 59. General - p. 52 60. “Thumb Sign” of Epiglottitis - p. 52 61. Acute Supraglottitis in Adults in Finland: Review and Analysis of 308 Cases - p. 53 62. Classical reflux symptoms, hiatus hernia and overweight independently predict pharyngeal acid exposure in patients with suspected reflux laryngitis - p. 54 63. Chronic cough and irritable larynx - p. 55 64. A Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Reflux Disease: Toward Creating a Clinical Protocol for the Otolaryngologist - p. 56 65. Advances in Office-Based Diagnosis and Treatment in Laryngology - p. 57 66. Arytenoid Dislocation: An Analysis of the Contemporary Literature - p. 58 67. Botulinum Toxin Treatment of Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia: Longitudinal Functional Outcomes - p. 59 68. Comparison of Sonography and Computed Tomography as Imaging Tools for Assessment of Airway Structures - p. 60 69. Outcomes - p. 61 70. Surgical Technique - p. 62 71. Injection Medialization Laryngoplasty in Children - p. 62 72. A New and Less Invasive Procedure for Arytenoid Adduction Surgery: Endoscopic-Assisted Arytenoid Adduction Surgery - p. 63 73. External light guidance for percutaneous dilatational tracheotomy - p. 64 74. Cervical tracheal resection with cricotracheal anastomosis: experience in adults with grade III–IV tracheal stenosis - p. 65 75. Coblation Removal of Laryngeal Teflon Granulomas - p. 66 76. Otology - p. 67 77. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 67 78. Speech perception in individuals with auditory dys-synchrony - p. 67 79. The vascularization of the human cochlea: its historical background - p. 68 80. Oxygen consumption by bacteria: a possible cause of negative middle ear pressure in ears with otitis media - p. 69 81. Influence of lipoproteins and fibrinogen on pathogenesis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss - p. 70 82. Development of an auditory implant manipulator for minimally invasive surgical insertion of implantable hearing devices - p. 71 83. Comparison between bone-conducted ultrasound and audible sound in speech recognition - p. 72 84. Clinical characteristics and audiological significance of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in tinnitus patients with normal hearing - p. 73 85. Abnormal Motion Perception in Vestibular Migraine - p. 74 86. Diagnostics - p. 75 87. External Ear, Middle Ear and Mastoid - p. 76 88. Isolated itching of external auditory canal: clinicopathological study with immunohistochemical determination of antimicrobial peptides - p. 76 89. Role of mitomycin C in reducing keloid recurrence: patient series and literature review - p. 77 90. To Pack or Not to Pack? A Contemporary Review of Middle Ear Packing Agents - p. 78 91. Contributing Factors in the Pathogenesis of Acquired Cholesteatoma: Size Analysis Based on MDCT - p. 79 92. Surgical management of troublesome mastoid cavities - p. 80 93. Total Ossiculoplasty in Children: Predictive Factors and Long-Term Follow-up - p. 81 94. Facial Nerve and Skull Base - p. 82 95. Facial Nerve Decompression Surgery in Patients With Temporal Bone Trauma: Analysis of 66 Cases - p. 82 96. Treatment of Facial Paralysis: Dynamic Reanimation of Spontaneous Facial Expression—Apropos of 655 Patients - p. 83 97. Evoked Potential Monitoring Identifies Possible Neurological Injury During Positioning for Craniotomy - p. 84 98. Endolympathic hydrops in patients with vestibular schwannoma: visualization by non-contrast-enhanced 3D FLAIR - p. 85 99. Prediction of Vestibular Schwannoma Growth: A Novel Rule Based on Clinical Symptomatology - p. 86 100. Clinicopathological factors related to regrowth of vestibular schwannoma after incomplete resection - p. 87 101. Long-term outcomes of vestibular schwannomas treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy: An institutional experience - p. 88 102. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannomas: Identification of Predictors for Continued Tumor Growth and the Influence of Documented Tumor Growth Preceding Radiation Treatment - p. 89 103. Malignancy in Vestibular Schwannoma after Stereotactic Radiotherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature - p. 90 104. General - p. 91 105. Association of age-related macular degeneration with age-related hearing loss - p. 91 106. Prognosis of patients with idiopathic sudden hearing loss: role of vestibular assessment - p. 92 107. Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct: Review of Controversial Aspects - p. 93 108. Investigation of the Coherence of Definite and Probable Vestibular Migraine as Distinct Clinical Entities - p. 94 109. What Is the Effect of Time Between Sequential Cochlear Implantations on Hearing in Adults and Children? A Systematic Review of the Literature - p. 95 110. Estimation of factors influencing the results of tinnitus retraining therapy - p. 96 111. Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials Examining Tinnitus Management - p. 97 112. Outcomes - p. 98 113. Surgical Treatment of the Periocular Complex and Improvement of Quality of Life in Patients With Facial Paralysis - p. 98 114. Taste disturbance after stapes surgery–clinical and experimental study - p. 99 115. Effect of Type I Tympanoplasty on the Quality of Life of Children - p. 100 116. Surgical Technique - p. 101 117. Outcome of the Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid Procedure Without Skin Thinning: A Prospective Clinical Trial - p. 101 118. Hyaluronic Acid Fat Graft Myringoplasty: An Office-Based Technique Adapted to Children - p. 102 119. Pediatric Otolaryngology - p. 103 120. Airway - p. 103 121. Bronchoscopy versus multi-detector computed tomography in the diagnosis of congenital vascular ring - p. 103 122. Common and uncommon vascular rings and slings: a multi-modality review - p. 104 123. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 105 124. General - p. 106 125. Acute otitis media–induced petrous apicitis presenting as the Gradenigo syndrome: successfully treated by ventilation tube insertion - p. 106 126. Ophthalmic complications of otitis media in children - p. 107 127. Otitis media with effusion with or without atopy: audiological findings on primary schoolchildren - p. 108 128. Do-it-yourself grommets - p. 109 129. Dexamethasone and Postoperative Bleeding Risk After Adenotonsillectomy in Children - p. 110 130. Changes in Heart Rate Variability After Adenotonsillectomy in Children With Obstructive Sleep Apnea - p. 111 131. Adverse effects of propranolol when used in the treatment of hemangiomas: A case series of 28 infants - p. 112 132. Current Treatment of Parotid Hemangiomas - p. 113 133. Button battery ingestion: The greek experience and review of the literature - p. 114 134. Living With a Craniofacial Condition: Development of the Craniofacial Experiences Questionnaire (CFEQ) for Adolescents and Their Parents - p. 115 135. Outcomes - p. 116 136. Does Concomitant Mastoidectomy Improve Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Repair of Tympanic Membrane Perforations? - p. 116 137. A Prospective Study of the Effect of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Treatment on Children With Otitis Media - p. 117 138. Can We Predict a Difficult Intubation in Cleft Lip/Palate Patients? - p. 118 139. Adenotonsillectomy improves slow-wave activity in children with obstructive sleep apnoea - p. 119 140. Incidence of Revision Adenoidectomy in Children - p. 120 141. Accuracy of prenatal three-dimensional ultrasound in the diagnosis of cleft hard palate when cleft lip is present - p. 121 142. Efficacy of Neonatal Release of Ankyloglossia: A Randomized Trial - p. 122 143. Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery - p. 123 144. Basic and Clinical Reearch - p. 123 145. Empty Nose Syndrome: Limbic System Activation Observed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - p. 123 146. Efficacy of using a hydrodebrider and of citric acid/zwitterionic surfactant on a Staphylococcus aureus bacterial biofilm in the sheep model of rhinosinusitis - p. 124 147. Mepolizumab, a humanized anti–IL-5 mAb, as a treatment option for severe nasal polyposis - p. 125 148. Evidence for Distinct Histologic Profile of Nasal Polyps With and Without Eosinophilia - p. 126 149. Immunohistochemical Characterization of Human Olfactory Tissue - p. 127 150. Histological features of the nasal mucosa in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation - p. 128 151. General - p. 129 152. Revisiting Human Nose Anatomy: Phylogenic and Ontogenic Perspectives - p. 129 153. Exostoses of the Paranasal Sinuses - p. 130 154. The natural history of epistaxis in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in the Norwegian population: A cross-sectional study - p. 131 155. Sinonasal Malignancies in Children: A 10-Year, Single-Institutional Review - p. 132 156. Do Biofilms Contribute to the Initiation and Recalcitrance of Chronic Rhinosinusitis? - p. 133 157. Regional and Specialty Variations in the Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis - p. 134 158. Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in Smokers and Nonsmokers - p. 135 159. Paranasal sinus computed tomography anatomy: a surgeon’s perspective - p. 136 160. Sphenoid sinus fungus ball: Our experience - p. 137 161. Paranasal sinus mucoceles with ophthalmologic manifestations: A 17-year review of 96 cases - p. 138 162. A new approach to the treatment of nasal bone fracture: The clinical usefulness of closed reduction using a C-arm - p. 139 163. Lack of efficacy of long-term, low-dose azithromycin in chronic rhinosinusitis: a randomized controlled trial - p. 140 164. Adjuvant therapy with flutamide for presurgical volume reduction in juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma - p. 141 165. Postoperative Care for Samter's Triad Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: A Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial - p. 142 166. Outcomes - p. 143 167. Olfactory Outcomes After Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery - p. 143 168. Complications in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A 25-Year Experience - p. 144 169. Contemporary Management of Sinonasal Cancer - p. 145 170. Association between severity of asthma and degree of chronic rhinosinusitis - p. 146 171. Evidence-based applications of mitomycin C in the nose - p. 147 172. Health State Utility Values in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Sinus Surgery - p. 148 173. Silent sinus syndrome: dynamic changes in the position of the orbital floor after restoration of normal sinus pressure - p. 149 174. Surgical Technique - p. 150 175. The Frontal Intersinus Septum Takedown Procedure: Revisiting a Technique for Surgically Refractory Unilateral Frontal Sinus Disease - p. 150 176. Study of the Nasoseptal Flap for Endoscopic Anterior Cranial Base Reconstruction - p. 151 177. Endoscopic Maxillary Antrostomy: Not Just a Simple Procedure - p. 152 178. Endoscopic devascularisation of sphenopalatine bundle in intractable posterior epistaxis: technique, efficacy and safety - p. 153 179. Hot water irrigation as treatment for intractable posterior epistaxis in an out-patient setting - p. 154 180. Endoscopic Transvestibular Paramandibular Exploration of the Infratemporal Fossa and Parapharyngeal Space: A Minimally Invasive Approach to the Middle Cranial Base - p. 155 181. A balloon dilatation technique for the treatment of intramaxillary lesions using a Foley catheter in chronic maxillary sinusitis - p. 156 182. Antegrade transsphenoidal vidian neurectomy: Short-term surgical outcome analysis - p. 157 183. Coblation-assisted endonasal endoscopic resection of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma - p. 158 184. Thyroid and Parathyroid - p. 159 185. Basic and Clinical Research - p. 159 186. Central Lymph Node Metastasis of Unilateral Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Patterns and Factors Predictive of Nodal Metastasis, Morbidity, and Recurrence - p. 159 187. An Analysis of Factors Predicting Lateral Cervical Nodal Metastases in Papillary Carcinoma of the Thyroid - p. 160 188. Clinical and Molecular Features of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults - p. 161 189. Diagnostics - p. 162 190. Clinical Implications of Bilateral Lateral Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Risk Factor for Lung Metastasis - p. 162 191. Role of core needle biopsy and ultrasonographic finding in management of indeterminate thyroid nodules - p. 163 192. Outcomes - p. 164 193. Does Mediastinal Extension of the Goiter Increase Morbidity of Total Thyroidectomy? A Multicenter Study of 19,662 Patients - p. 164 194. Disease-Related Death in Patients Who Were Considered Free of Macroscopic Disease After Initial Treatment of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma - p. 165 195. Central Compartment Reoperation for Recurrent/Persistent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Patterns of Recurrence, Morbidity, and Prediction of Postoperative Hypocalcemia - p. 166 196. Initial therapy with either thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy without radioactive iodine remnant ablation is associated with very low rates of structural disease recurrence in properly selected patients with differentiated thyroid cancer - p. 167 197. Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Ethanol Injection Treatment in Patients with a Limited Number of Metastatic Cervical Lymph Nodes from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma - p. 168 198. Surgical Technique - p. 169 199. Loupe Magnification Reduces Postoperative Hypocalcemia after Total Thyroidectomy - p. 169 200. Randomized clinical trial on harmonic Focus shears versus clamp-and-tie technique for total thyroidectomy - p. 170 201. Meta-analysis of Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy - p. 171