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Introduction: Tonsil surgery is a common procedure in otolaryngology and may be associated with complications. Its indications have evolved and are well codified. In the literature, obstructive and infectious indications remain the most common ones. In Africa, there is little data on the annual number of tonsil surgeries performed. Although these are routine procedures in ORL. We proposed to evaluate the practice of this surgery in our context. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the practice of tonsil surgery and its complications in the five teaching hospitals of Yaounde the city capital of Cameroon. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the ENT units of five teaching hospitals in Yaounde. The targets were patients who underwent tonsil surgery from January 2015 to March 2021. The vari..... ReadMore -
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Tonsillectomy is considered as the most common surgical procedure in the specialty of otorhinolaryngology. Therefore, there are frequent thoughts regarding this procedure to improve its conditions from different aspects, indications, time of surgery, techniques, safety measures..... ReadMore -
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Thermo-electrical stimulation therapy (hereinafter referred to as biotherapy) is a combination of thermal and electrical stimulation therapies to relieve muscle tension and improve circulation in the head and neck regions. Biotherapy is postulated to have a similar mechanism of action to epipharyngeal abrasive therapy (EAT). Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) levels were measured as a measure of efficacy. The results showed that FeNO levels significantly decreased following biotherapy treatment, suggesting a similar mechanism of action to that of EAT. The possibility of biotherapy as a treatment for long COVID (LC) is being discussed...... ReadMore -
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he Eustachian Tube (ET) is 31-38 mm long and is localized at an angle of 450 to the horizontal plane, 1/3 of which is posteri- or bone and 2/3 is anterior cartilage...... ReadMore -
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Even at the initial stage of work on the topic of cochlear implantation, we had an assumption that after the operation of cochlear implantation (CI), CI patients may have the recruitment phenomenon. Taking into account the results of the world’s first study of the stapedial reflex...... ReadMore -
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The relationship between vitamin D and laryngomalacia is not fully known. Our study aimed to investigate whether there is any relationship between laryngomalacia and vitamin D...... ReadMore -
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Stuttering is known as the disorder of speech fluency. It is characterized by the oral and laryngeal blocks, repetition of words, syllables or sounds or prolongation of sounds [1]. According to the definition by Legislative Council of the American Speech-Language...... ReadMore -
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EAT was performed on 546 patients with chronic epipharyngitis who visited our clinic between August 2018 and August 2019. A retrospective observational study was conducted on 55 of these cases that received a cure decision. As evaluation indices, the bleeding score and the EAT score were used...... ReadMore