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  1. It is not uncommon for patients with indeterminate thyroid nodules to undergo diagnostic hemithyroidectomy. When the final pathology determines that the nodule is in fact malignant, patients require counseling...

    Authors: Badr Ibrahim, Véronique-Isabelle Forest, Michael Hier, Alex M. Mlynarek, Derin Caglar and Richard J. Payne
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:23
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  3. Comprehensive understanding of frontal recess anatomy is essential for the successful treatment of patients with frontal sinus disease. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of specific frontal r...

    Authors: Kazunori Kubota, Sachio Takeno and Katsuhiro Hirakawa
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:21
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  4. Cochlear implantation has become a mainstream treatment option for patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. During cochlear implant, there are key surgical steps which are influenced by ana...

    Authors: Edward Park, Hosam Amoodi, Jafri Kuthubutheen, Joseph M. Chen, Julian M. Nedzelski and Vincent Y. W. Lin
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:20
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  5. Since the first facial allograft transplantation was performed, several institutions have performed the procedure with the main objectives being restoration of the aesthetic appearance and expressive function ...

    Authors: Adrian I. Mendez, Hadi Seikaly, Vincent Biron, Lin-fu Zhu and David W. J. Côté
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:19
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  6. Radioiodine and Tc-99 m pertechnetate scans are routinely relied upon to detect metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer; false-positive scans are relatively rare. To our knowledge, no published reports exist of...

    Authors: Nicole L Lebo, Francois Raymond and Michael J Odell
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:18
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. To compare early (3 and 6 month) and later (12 and 24 month) functional outcomes of stage III and IV (M0) oropharyngeal squamous cancer patients treated in sequential cohorts with 3D conformal (3DCRT) or inten...

    Authors: Paul Kerr, Candace L Myers, James Butler, Mohamed Alessa, Pascal Lambert and Andrew L Cooke
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:17
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  8. Warthin’s tumor or cystadenolymphoma (CAL) is a benign salivary gland tumor occurring almost exclusively in the parotid gland. CALs of other locations are rare.

    Authors: Lluís Nisa, Basile Nicolas Landis, Cinzia Salmina, Angeliki Ailianou, Eva Karamitopoulou and Roland Giger
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:16
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. The Canadian Rhinologic workforce and future needs are not well defined. The objective of this study was to define the current demographics and practice patterns of the Canadian Rhinologic workforce. Outcomes ...

    Authors: Kristine A Smith, Doron D Sommer, Sean Grondin, Brian Rotenberg, Marc A Tewfik, Shaun Kilty, Erin Wright, Arif Janjua, John Lee, Chris Diamond and Luke Rudmik
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:15
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  10. To describe the development of a new clinically applicable method for assessing vestibular function in humans with particular application in Meniere’s disease.

    Authors: Zeinab A Dastgheib, Brian Lithgow, Brian Blakley and Zahra Moussavi
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:14
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  11. C-reactive protein (CRP) screening has been reported to be reliable for detection of infectious complications. Postoperative abnormal response of CRP can predict wound infection in colorectal surgery. This stu...

    Authors: Masaya Akashi, Shungo Furudoi, Kazunobu Hashikawa, Akiko Sakakibara, Takumi Hasegawa, Takashi Shigeta, Tsutomu Minamikawa and Takahide Komori
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:13
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  12. Thyroid cancer rates are on the rise worldwide with over 5000 new cases estimated in Canada in 2012. The American Thyroid Association recommends the use of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) in the workup of ...

    Authors: Andre R Le, Gregory W Thompson and Benjamin John A Hoyt
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:12
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  13. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a highly prevalent inflammatory disease with significant impacts on patient quality of life and daily productivity. Evaluating the volume of research on CRS, relative to similar...

    Authors: Luke Rudmik
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. Detection of olfactory dysfunction is important for fire and food safety. Clinical tests of olfaction have been developed for adults but their use in children has been limited because they were felt to be unre...

    Authors: Sarah C Hugh, Jennifer Siu, Thomas Hummel, Vito Forte, Paolo Campisi, Blake C Papsin and Evan J Propst
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:10
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  15. Unilateral isolated sphenoid sinus disease (ISSD) is a rare diagnosis of the paranasal sinuses that can be associated with complications involving vascular, neurologic, and optic structures in close proximity.

    Authors: Jennifer Siu, Sudhir Sharma and Leigh Sowerby
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. The management of patients with advanced stages of head and neck cancer requires a multidisciplinary and multimodality treatment approach which includes a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. T...

    Authors: Timothy Cooper, Vincent L Biron, David Fast, Raymond Tam, Thomas Carey, Maya Shmulevitz and Hadi Seikaly
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:8
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  17. Despite the fact that otoscopy is a widely used and taught diagnostic tool during medical training, errors in diagnosis are common. Physical otoscopy simulators have high fidelity, but they can be expensive an...

    Authors: Brandon Wickens, Jordan Lewis, David P Morris, Murad Husein, Hanif M Ladak and Sumit K Agrawal
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:7
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  18. The Editors of Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 43 (2014).

    Authors: Hadi Seikaly and Erin Wright
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:6
    Content type: Reviewer acknowledgement Published on:

  19. Post treatment lung screening for head and neck cancer patients primarily focuses on the distant metastasis and a high rate of second primary can also be expected. The best screening tool and timing for this p...

    Authors: J Madana, Gregoire B Morand, Luz Barona-Lleo, Martin J Black, Alex M Mlynarek and Michael P Hier
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:5
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  20. Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) is the most common head and neck cancer, affecting approximately 2000 Canadians yearly. Analysis of Canadian Cancer Registry data has shown that the incidence of ora...

    Authors: Bree Erickson, Vincent L Biron, Han Zhang, Hadi Seikaly and David WJ Côté
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:4
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  21. There is significant variability in undergraduate Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (OTOHNS) curricula across Canadian medical schools. As part of an extracurricular program delivered jointly with other s...

    Authors: Brittany Greene, Linden Head, Nada Gawad, Stanley J Hamstra and Laurie McLean
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:3
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  22. Ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration (USFNA) biopsy of thyroid nodules often gives a result of indeterminate pathology, placing thyroid specialists in difficult management situations. The aim of this study...

    Authors: Rickul Varshney, Veronique-Isabelle Forest, Marco A Mascarella, Faisal Zawawi, Louise Rochon, Michael P Hier, Alex Mlynarek, Michael Tamilia and Richard J Payne
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:2
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  23. Free vascularized fibular flaps are commonly used in jaw reconstruction. CT scan images of the fibula are used in digital planning of jaw reconstruction. In order to fully describe the anatomy of the fibula, a...

    Authors: Yoshiaki Ide, Satoru Matsunaga, Jeffrey Harris, Daniel O’ Connell, Hadi Seikaly and Johan Wolfaardt
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2015 44:1
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  25. To determine the rate of publication in a peer-reviewed journal for all oral presentations made at the Canadian Society for Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery’s Annual Meetings from 2006–2010.

    Authors: Lauren N Ogilvie, Julie Pauwels, Neil K Chadha and Frederick K Kozak
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:51
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  26. The primary objective of this study is to describe variations in incidence rates, resection rates, and types of surgical ablations performed on patients diagnosed with major salivary gland cancers in Ontario.

    Authors: Antoine Eskander, Jonathan Irish, Jeremy Freeman, Patrick Gullane, Ralph Gilbert, Patti A Groome, Stephen F Hall, David R Urbach and David P Goldstein
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:50
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  27. The reported prevalence of vestibular dysfunction after cochlear implantation (CI) is varies between different scientific papers. The aim of this study is to determine the reported post-implantation outcome in...

    Authors: Faisal Zawawi, Faisal Alobaid, Tony Leroux and Anthony G Zeitouni
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:49
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  28. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is the standard of care for the diagnostic work-up of thyroid nodules but despite its proven utility, the non-diagnostic rate for thyroid FNA ranges from 6-36%. A non-diagnostic FN...

    Authors: Andre Isaac, Caroline C Jeffery, Hadi Seikaly, Hani Al-Marzouki, Jeffrey R Harris and Daniel A O’Connell
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:48
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  29. Health care costs in Canada continue to rise. As a result of this relentless increase in healthcare spending, ways to increase efficiency and decrease cost are constantly being sought. Surgical treatment is th...

    Authors: Christopher J Chin, Leigh J Sowerby, Ava John-Baptiste and Brian W Rotenberg
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:46
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  33. Primary hyperparathyroisim is a relatively common condition, for which the standard treatment is surgical excision of one or more of the parathyroid glands. Primary hyperparathyroidism can be due to a single a...

    Authors: Blair A Williams, Jonathan RB Trites, S Mark Taylor, Martin J Bullock and Robert D Hart
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:44
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  34. To create and validate a German version of the Tonsil and Adenoid Health Status Instrument (TAHSI) for evaluation of tonsillectomy outcome in adult patients with chronic or recurrent tonsillitis.

    Authors: Teresa Steinbichler, Birte Bender, Elisabeth Blassnigg and Herbert Riechelmann
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:41
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  35. Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is a technically challenging procedure, associated with a significant risk of complications. Virtual reality simulation has demonstrated benefit in many disciplines as an importa...

    Authors: Rickul Varshney, Saul Frenkiel, Lily HP Nguyen, Meredith Young, Rolando Del Maestro, Anthony Zeitouni, Elias Saad, W Robert J Funnell and Marc A Tewfik
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:40
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  36. To measure changes in air quality during surgery.

    Authors: Matthew D Brace, Elizabeth Stevens, S Mark Taylor, Sarah Butt, Zhennan Sun, Licai Hu, Megan Borden, Neeraj Khanna, James Kuchta, Jonathan Trites, Robert Hart and Mark D Gibson
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:39
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  37. Metabolic tumour volume (MTV) obtained from pre-treatment 18 F-fluorodeoxydeglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET-CT) has been validated as an independent predictive factor of outcome...

    Authors: Han Zhang, Hadi Seikaly, Jonathan T Abele, Dean T Jeffery, Jeffrey R Harris and Daniel A O’Connell
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:33
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  38. Virtual surgery may improve learning and provides an opportunity for pre-operative surgical rehearsal. We describe a novel haptic temporal bone simulator specifically developed for multicore processing and imp...

    Authors: Dana Wong, Bertram Unger, Jay Kraut, Justyn Pisa, Charlotte Rhodes and Jordan B Hochman
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:31
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  39. There is a need for innovative anatomic teaching tools. This paper describes a three dimensional (3D) tool employing the Microsoft Kinect ™. Using this instrument, 3D temporal bone anatomy can be manipulated w...

    Authors: Jordan B Hochman, Bertram Unger, Jay Kraut, Justyn Pisa and Sabine Hombach-Klonisch
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:38
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  40. In evaluation for blepharoplasty, patients often desire improved cosmesis and/or correction of visual field deficits. However, patients are usually unaware of eyelid or brow asymmetry. Furthermore, the prevale...

    Authors: Kristian I Macdonald, Adrian I Mendez, Robert D Hart and S Mark Taylor
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:36
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  41. Recently graduated Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgeons (OTO-HNS) are facing an employment crisis. To date, there has been no systematic evaluation of the factors contributing to this situation, graduating ...

    Authors: Michael G Brandt, Grace M Scott, Philip C Doyle and Robert H Ballagh
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:37
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  42. To determine factors predictive of a severe deep neck space infection (DNSI), defined as those requiring surgery and/or postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission. To specifically examine dental practic...

    Authors: Brittany R Barber, Peter T Dziegielewski, Vincent L Biron, Andrew Ma and Hadi Seikaly
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:35
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  43. The detection of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) is on the rise and its optimal management remains controversial. Our aim was to determine the current self-reported management of PTMC amongst Canadian ...

    Authors: Mazin Merdad, Antoine Eskander, John De Almeida, Jeremy Freeman, Lorne Rotstein, Shereen Ezzat, Anna M Sawka and David P Goldstein
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:32
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  45. Radiation to the inner ear may lead to (irreversible) sensorineural hearing loss. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term effect of radiotherapy on hearing in patients treated with Intensity Mo...

    Authors: Eleonoor AR Theunissen, Charlotte L Zuur, Marta Lopez Yurda, Sieberen van der Baan, Anne F Kornman, Jan Paul de Boer, Alfons JM Balm, Coen RN Rasch and Wouter A Dreschler
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:30
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  46. With rising health care costs, governments must develop innovative methods to deliver efficient and equitable health care services. With physician remuneration being the third largest health care expense, the ...

    Authors: Luke Rudmik, Dominika Wranik and Caroline Rudisill-Michaelsen
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:34
    Content type: Review Published on:

  49. The extent of treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer remains controversial. The objective of this study was to describe the variations in practice prior to diagnosis and for the first year after diagnosis...

    Authors: Stephen F Hall, Jonathan C Irish, Patti A Groome and David R Urbach
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:29
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  50. Thyroid nodules are common, but only 5% of nodules are found to be malignant. In North America, the incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing. Fine needle aspirate (FNA) biopsy is the diagnostic test of choice...

    Authors: Matthew D Brace, Jun Wang, Mark Petten, Martin J Bullock, Fawaz Makki, Jonathan Trites, S Mark Taylor and Robert D Hart
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2014 43:22
    Content type: Original research article Published on:
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