Valeria Silva Merea, MD, a laryngologist specializing in head and neck surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses how sports taught her important skills, including discipline and time management.
Are Neuromodulating Medications Effective for Treatment of Chronic Neurogenic Cough?
The use of neuromodulators appears to be helpful in patients with chronic idiopathic/ neurogenic cough
Vocal Fold Paralysis Treatments
Otolaryngologists at Triological Combined Sections Meeting recommend procedures, therapeutic approaches for accidental transection, cancer, large vagal paraganglioma
Relationship Between Fatigue, Perfectionsism and Functional Dysphonia
Do patients with functional dysphonia (FD) experience general fatigue in addition to their voice problems, and is this associated with perfectionism?
Endoscopic Surgical Management of Subglottic Stenosis Still a Challenge
How effective is endoscopic surgical management of adult subglottic stenosis, and what are the treatment outcomes?
Preventing Nasogastric Tube Injury: Is There a Better Way?
Flexible transnasal endoscopy-assisted placement, as well as 35 mm radiography, and electromagnetic and capnometry assistive devices can reduce complications and lower misplacement rates associated with NGTs
SM14: Concurrent Session V – Laryngology
Experts at the Triological Society’s 2014 Combined Sections Meeting present research in laryngology.
Globus Presents Diagnostic Challenge for Otolaryngologists
New research links inflammation and neuralgia as suspected causes, but making a definitive diagnosis remains difficult
Elective Neck Dissection Indicated in Patients Undergoing Salvage Laryngectomy
When salvage laryngectomy is required in the setting of recurrent cancer after primary irradiation or chemoradiation therapy, is elective neck dissection always indicated?
Tonsillectomy Surgical Practices May Play a Role in Taste Disorders
Otolaryngologists suspect that prolonged tongue depression during tonsillectomy could result in taste disturbance