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Obesity May Not Affect Outcomes of Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy: Subset Analysis of 304 Patients.

Related Articles Obesity May Not Affect Outcomes of Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy: Subset Analysis of 304 Patients. Laryngoscope. 2020 05;130(5):1343-1348 Authors: Tai DKC, Kim HY, Park D, You J, Kim HK, Russell JO, Tufano RP Abstract OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: Obesity is an increasing health concern worldwide. It has been associated with perioperative complications that could affect patient outcomes. Our aim was to compare surgical outcomes...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

The safety and efficacy of open bedside tracheotomy: A retrospective analysis of 1000 patients.

Related Articles The safety and efficacy of open bedside tracheotomy: A retrospective analysis of 1000 patients. Laryngoscope. 2020 05;130(5):1263-1269 Authors: Liao DZ, Mehta V, Kinkhabwala CM, Li D, Palsen S, Schiff BA Abstract OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the safety/efficacy of performing open bedside tracheotomy (OBT) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and identify predictive factors for outcomes. METHODS: This is a retrospective...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

The Influence of Popular Online Beauty Content Creators on Lip Fillers.

Related Articles The Influence of Popular Online Beauty Content Creators on Lip Fillers. Aesthet Surg J. 2019 09 13;39(10):NP437-NP438 Authors: Ward B, Paskhover B PMID: 31334550 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

An Innovative Approach to Airway Foreign Body Management in an Extremely Premature Neonate.

Related Articles An Innovative Approach to Airway Foreign Body Management in an Extremely Premature Neonate. Laryngoscope. 2020 05;130(5):1236-1238 Authors: Hodge SE, Kilpatrick L, Zdanski C Abstract This case report is a retrospective review of a challenging though ultimately successful removal of an airway foreign body in a 2-day-old premature female born at 23 weeks and 4 days gestation. A segment of a 5-F surfactant catheter was cut and...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

Cost of treating recurrent respiratory papillomavirus in commercially insured and medicaid patients.

Related Articles Cost of treating recurrent respiratory papillomavirus in commercially insured and medicaid patients. Laryngoscope. 2020 05;130(5):1186-1194 Authors: Tam S, Wu CF, Peng HL, Dahlstrom KR, Sturgis EM, Lairson DR Abstract OBJECTIVES: The study objective was to estimate the first 2 years' direct costs of treating new cases of juvenile-onset and adult-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) and determine the predictors of...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

Effect of cochlear implant n-of-m strategy on signal-to-noise ratio below which noise hinders speech recognition.

Related Articles Effect of cochlear implant n-of-m strategy on signal-to-noise ratio below which noise hinders speech recognition. J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 05;145(5):EL417 Authors: Stam L, Goverts ST, Smits C Abstract Speech recognition was measured in 24 normal-hearing subjects for unprocessed speech and for speech processed by a cochlear implant Advanced Combination Encoder (ACE) coding strategy in quiet and at various signal-to noise ratios...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

Pharyngeal flow simulations during sibilant sound in a patient-specific model with velopharyngeal insufficiency.

Related Articles Pharyngeal flow simulations during sibilant sound in a patient-specific model with velopharyngeal insufficiency. J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 05;145(5):3137 Authors: Sundström E, Oren L Abstract Dysfunction of the velopharyngeal valve in the human airway causes speech disorders because there is no separation between the oral and nasal cavities during normal oral speech. The speech literature hypothesizes that undesired sound is formed...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

Abnormally increased vocal responses to pitch feedback perturbations in patients with cerebellar degeneration.

Related Articles Abnormally increased vocal responses to pitch feedback perturbations in patients with cerebellar degeneration. J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 05;145(5):EL372 Authors: Houde JF, Gill JS, Agnew Z, Kothare H, Hickok G, Parrell B, Ivry RB, Nagarajan SS Abstract Cerebellar degeneration (CD) has deleterious effects on speech motor behavior. Recently, a dissociation between feedback and feedforward control of speaking was observed in CD:...

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Tue Sep 01, 2020 13:13

Derivatization Strategy for Simultaneous Molecular Imaging of Phospholipids and Low-Abundance Free Fatty Acids in Thyroid Cancer Tissue Sections.

Related Articles Derivatization Strategy for Simultaneous Molecular Imaging of Phospholipids and Low-Abundance Free Fatty Acids in Thyroid Cancer Tissue Sections. Anal Chem. 2019 03 19;91(6):4070-4076 Authors: Wang SS, Wang YJ, Zhang J, Sun TQ, Guo YL Abstract Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) has been applied in many fields for detecting and imaging a variety of metabolites. In cancer research,...

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