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Filter by:The focus of the study is to verify the role of enhanced contact endoscopy in early identification of high-risk vascular patterns of precancerous and malignant mucosal changes in ear-nose-throat (ENT) patients, in comparison with other standard imaging techniques.
To improve diagnostic methods for patients with laryngeal stenosis for the optimal determination of the technique of surgical treatment.
Laryngeal disorders after childhood cardiac surgery is a complication well described in the literature. However, the long term progression of the affected children has never been studied (all the studies stopped before 2 years of follow up).
The purpose of this study is to test the outcomes of a CO2 laser device called AcuPulse Duo on vocal lesions and compare them to the most commonly used Aura KTP laser in order to determine which device has the best results. The CO2 laser device is an already FDA approved device. However, there have been no studies comparing the two devices for this use.
Single-center, randomized study, comparing two methods of oxygenation on 80 patients
Study laryngeal disorders by laryngoscopic examination by two physicians on GERD patients diagnosed by gastroenterology department by endoscopy and effect of GERD treatment for 3 months on these laryngeal disorders without any treatment to laryngeal disorders
Laser surgery and radiotherapy are well-established standards of care for unilateral stage 0 & I carcinoma in situ (Cais) and squamous cell carcinoma of glottic larynx (SCCGL). Based on meta-analyses, functional and oncological outcome after both treatment modalities are comparable1-5. However, no properly conducted randomized trials comparing these treatments exist. The only such trial with the endpoint of voice quality had to be prematurely closed due to low accrual6. The traditional radiotherapy involves the treatment of the whole larynx. Recently, a new radiotherapy technique was introduced by a team of researchers from Netherlands, where the treated target volume consists of involved vocal cord and therefore 8 to 10-fold smaller than the target volumes used for traditional whole larynx irradiation. The treatment is reduced to 16 fractions which corresponds to 3 weeks and a day7-12. The results of a prospective cohort (n=30) with single vocal cord irradiation (SVCI) were compared with the results of a historical prospective cohort previously treated with whole larynx radiotherapy (n=131) in the same institute. The median follow-up was 30 months. The voice handicap index (VHI) at all time points beginning from the 6th week after SVCI was significantly superior to the same time points with conventional radiotherapy. Moreover, a comparable local control with SVCI (100%) vs. conventional radiotherapy (92%) was reported at two years, p=0.2412. Based on this information, the investigators' main aim is to compare SVCI to Transoral CO2-Laser Microsurgical Cordectomy (TLM) with the main focus of patient-reported voice quality.
This study investigates if head and neck squamous cell carcinoma can be tracked with cell-free tumor DNA, RNA or HPV-DNA, in blood samples from patients referred with suspicion of cancer, and if it can be used in detecting recurrence in patients already diagnosed and treated for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Suspension laryngoscopy is realised during apnea. In effect, surgeons are in the mouth of the patient and we can't have access at the aiways. So investigators like to use a Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE) to increase time of apnea and decrease the impact of oxygen desaturation.
The aim of the study is to assess the efficiency and limitations of ultrasound in detecting and characterizing laryngeal anatomy and study of some laryngeal disorders and their ultrasonographic appearance.