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... The advent of endoscopy and computed tomography at the beginning of the 1980s brought to rhinology a revival of anatomy and physiology study. In 1994, the International Conference of Sinus Disease was conceived because ... See full document

... Walker et al 7 showed a retrospective case series of conse- cutive patients treated from 1997 to 2011 with a Canal Wall Reconstruction (CWR) tympanomastoidectomy with mastoid obliteration using bone pate. The sample ... See full document

... In a study on health problems of the elderly, the authors found that 63.1% of the subjects in the sample self-reported hearing loss. Although prevalence was high, the use of hearing aids was reported by only 1.47% of ... See full document

... To evaluate the test results, individuals were redistributed according to the values obtained for UW and DP, according to the national and international standards. Thus, according to national criteria, tests were ... See full document

... Objective The research aims to assess short-term effects of Otolith Repositioning Maneuver (ORM) on dizziness symptoms, quality of life, and postural balance in elderly people with Benig[r] ... See full document

... Because vHIT stimulates the six vestibular semicircular canals at frequencies higher than those of the rotational and caloric tests, it was surmised that her vestibular disorder was more[r] ... See full document

... cases. Otosclerosis is more commonly diagnosed in women (female:male ratio of 2:1) and most frequently affects white individuals aged 20 to 40 years; it is less common in Asians and rare in Africans. 1,2,8,9 ... See full document

... the process of tongue formation. 1 Embryogenic formation begins around the fourth week of intrauterine life, resulting in proliferation of the mesenchyme of the first pair of the gill arches. 2 Most cases reported in the ... See full document

... From October 2014 to December 2014, 23 patients (10 women, 13 men) who underwent RFTA and 20 patients (11 women, 9 men) who underwent BEC were recruited. Inclu- sion criteria for both groups were nasal obstruction ... See full document

... The furniture company is divided physically and departmen- tally into the areas of machining, assembly, polishing, pro- duction, work yard, packing, boiler, of fi ce, preparation, and mai[r] ... See full document

... Objectives This study provides a systematic review of recent studies to evaluate the outcomes of cochlear implantation in patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) with regards to speech[r] ... See full document

... With the purpose of achieving the objectives of the study, we calculated the agreement between the assessors for the velopharyngeal sphincter closure patterns using the Kappa coefficient of agreement by pairing the ... See full document

... (77%). 20 These tests must be interpreted 15 to 20 minutes after puncture, in an interval that should not be exceeded since skin reactions tend to fade over ... See full document

... It is well known in the literature that neurogenic dysphagia may involve impairment or incoordination of orpharyngeal functions, nasal regurgitation, poor control of the saliva, drool- ing, coughs, food stasis, and ... See full document

... Method The study counted on the participation of 25 elderly female choristers from the Choir of Messianic Church of São Paulo, with ages varying between 63 and 82 years, and an average of 71 years (standard deviation of ... See full document

... The extracted data included sex and age distribution, development site, chief complaint, presence or absence of concomitant active pulmonary TB (PTB) or history of TB, tuberculin skin te[r] ... See full document

... 17 Bess FH, Tharpe AM, Gibler AM. Auditory performance of children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Ear Hear 1986;7(1):20–26 18 Feuerstein JF. Monaural versus binaural hearing: ease of listening, word ... 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

... Increased severity of OSA, verified by AHI, correlated with an increase in the angle A2, obtained by photogrammetry, and the reduction of the CPL/Hor angles and CVA obtained by cephalometry. These results show the ... See full document

... Bismuth subgallate (BS) is a yellow and odorless powder. The compound is stable in air, but suffers discoloration under the influence of sunlight. 2 Its homeostatic and astringent properties have led to increasing use by ... See full document