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... posterior arch of the atlas vertebra; it also evaluates the craniocervical posture, but in a linear fashion; c) Height H: distance from the body of the hyoid bone (H) to the line formed by the antero-inferior ... See full document

... The analysis of the first 70 milliseconds of sABR to CV stimuli included transient, transitional, and sustained re- sponse features. Transient response reflects neural activity in response to speech events including sound ... See full document

... to 20 kHz) is an additional and important test to identify an initial hearing loss, as it is more sensitive to noise than conven- tional audiometry, 9,10 even though there is no consensus on the standardization of ... See full document

... For the bibliographic search the following terms and combinations were used: lingual frenum x myofunctional therapy; lingual frenum x speech therapy; lingual frenum x therapeutics; ankyl[r] ... See full document

... The technique described in this study was developed for a patient with a 20-year history of bilateral progressive hearing loss and tinnitus. The patient was an otolaryngol- ogist and was hindered from working in ... See full document

... Patients with hyperinsulinemia (Kraft curves type II, IIIA, IIIB, and IV) and patients with brush border membrane disease (Kraft curve type V) exhibit some clinical differences.. Patient[r] ... See full document

... With regards to tinnitus loudness, this study showed a variation of 5 to 25dBNA. A study performed with individuals exposed to occupational noise observed a variation of 0 to 20 dBNA, 14 a very similar result to ... See full document

... The mean postoperative hearing level was signi fi - cantly higher after IT steroid application compared to VT, taking into consideration that preoperative mean of hearing level of both gr[r] ... See full document

... The aim of this study was to see whether there is a correlation between the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and the Visual Vertigo Analogue Scale (VVAS) in the evaluation of the impac[r] ... See full document

... We found that age did not affect the DGI score, which concurs with a study by Whitney. 16 This is, however, in contrast to the results reported by another study that found that age influences both gait and balance in ... See full document

... The ACE strategy emphasizes the spectral and temporal clues of the acoustic signal. The device relies on a dynamic selection of the stimulated channels depending on the fre- quencies of greater or maximum amplitude of ... See full document

... We randomly categorized the 18 rats into three equal groups: (1) the non-treated control group; (2) the gum tragecanth- treated group received 5 ml/kg 5% gum tragacanth (suspending agent[r] ... See full document

... In this study, we verified that the relation between QOL and swallowing was moderate in the first assessment before the therapy program, showing that dysphagia had a negative effect on patient QoL. According to the study ... See full document

... Therefore, the study group included 126 patients (88 women and 38 men) between April 2014 and May 2015 who visited the ENT Clinic Center at the Núcleo de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia [r] ... See full document

... The above results signify that there is always a chance of negative bronchoscopy exposing the patients to the hazards of general anesthesia and possible complication of rigid bronchoscopy during the procedure and ... See full document

... had stage 4. Tumors more frequently affected the parame- ningeal sites (80.6%) and had over 5 cm in size for 77.4% of the cases. Furthermore, our patients showed a low survival rate with an EFS of 17.7  7.8% for all the ... See full document

... At the glottal level, resection margins over 1–2mm will be considered adequate, 11 although some authors have sug- gested the effectiveness of margins less than 0.5mm for in situ or T1 carcinomas. 15 A different concept ... See full document

... In our review of the literature, we found only one recently published study concerning the association between GM-CSF levels in nasal secretions and nasal eosinophilia. De Corso et al 21 found detectable levels of this ... See full document

... We determined the sample size by literature analysis. We randomly created two groups of 30 animals. We then divided the animals into subgroups of 10. Therefore, the control and experimental group comprised 3 subgroups of ... See full document

... - 20 kHz) has discovered that noise exposure induces activation of mitochondria-mediated cell death pathways in outer hair cells of the cochlea through activation of Bad by ... See full document