Målet med denne litteraturstudien var å kartlegge immunologiske mekanismer og effektmåling ved allergenspesifikk immunterapi (SIT) i behandlingen av bjørkepollenallergi. SIT er per dags dato den eneste immunmodulerende og ...

Background: About 25 % children with profound deafness have additional disabilities. For children who cannot be evaluated by speech perception tests, an alternative scale scoring-method was designed by the CI-team at ...

The patogenesis of tinnitus has remained unknown despite a prevalence as high as 10-15% of the population. In 1990, Pavel Jastreboff presented a hypothesis that even though the tinnitus signal is generated in the chochlea ...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the causes and impacts of diagnostic delay in head and neck cancer. Material and methods: A search was conducted to identify studies that described the association between ...

Det presenteres her, i form av en studentoppgave, en oversikt over tilgjengelig litteratur som omhandler malignt melanom i munn- og neseslimhinne basert på et systematisk søk blant primærartikler publisert i PubMed mellom ...

Necrotizing soft tissue infection of the head and neck is a life threatening condition that requires immediate surgical treatment, as well as broad spectrum antibiotics and supporting measures. It is a quite rare condition, ...

Sammendrag Bakgrunn: Finnålsaspirasjonscytologi er en veletablert metode for å diagnostisere tumorer i hode og hals regionen. Formålet med denne studien var å evaluere den kliniske betydningen av finnålsaspirasjons cytologi ...

Bakgrunn: Flere studier har påvist sammenheng mellom organtransplantasjon og utvikling av maligne svulster i hode- og halsregionen. Det viser seg at disse er mindre differensierte, mer aggressive og har lettere for å ...

Auditory neuropathy (AN) is a relatively new diagnosis in which hearing is seriously abrupted by dys-synchronized nerve transmission. It is characterized by normal otoacoustic emissions or cochlear michrophonics, abnormal ...

INTRODUCTION. Craniocervical paragangliomas are rare tumors. These paragangliomas are most commonly found in the carotid-body, middle ear and in the course of n.vagus. The overwhelming majority of these tumors are ...

The treatment with Continuos Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) for respirationrelated sleeping disturbances has been a gold-standard for many years, and the meaning of this study is to control whether available literature ...

Purpose: To evaluate the occurrence of adenoids in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared to a non-CF population. Material and Method: Sixty five CF patients (mean 13,7 years, range 4-25 years), F/M: 25/40 and 100 ...

Juvenile nasofaryngeale angiofibrom (JNA) er en sjelden, men potensielt farlig sykdom, som hovedsaklig finnes hos gutter i puberteten. Mitt mål var å finne informasjon om JNA's etiologi, dette basert på en gjennomgang av ...

Background: Swallowing is normally initiated voluntarily, and afterwards presumed controlled by brainstem reflexes. Resection of the hypopharynx with reconstruction using a jejunal autograft may conceivably affect this ...

Abstract Objective: To assess prevalence, type and risk factors for hearing impairment in children in Nairobi slum areas. Methods: Cross-sectional clinical study conducted in 2006 with complete clinical otological ...

ABSTRACT In Norway children with severe hearing loss have over the last few years been offered cochlear implants to restore their hearing. This is only done at Rikshospitalet (the national hospital in Oslo), and have so ...

ABSTRACT In recent years the use of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography for the evaluation of head and neck cancers has increased, mainly with the introduction of fused PET/CT imaging. This new imaging ...

The abstract of myringoplasties in children- A retrospective study over two years. C. Sondén and C. Laurent. National hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. In this retrospective study over two years 49 children (51 ...

I denne oppgaven gjennomgåes en enkel undersøkelse i ØNH. Produktet er videoer som etterhvert publiseres på universitets sider for E-læring.

Objective: Otitis media (OM) management involves both primary and specialist health care. The present study used data on general practitioner (GP) referrals to estimate the proportion of children with OM referred from ...

Abstract Salivary duct carcinoma (SDC) is characterised as an infrequent highly aggressive malignant tumour of the salivary gland, often diagnosed at an advanced stage. Due to the low incidence of SDC, only limited data ...

ABSTRACT ANTERIOR CRANIOFACIAL RESECTIONS Tumors involving the anterior skullbase are not easily accessible to surgical therapy, but it is no longer an impossible task due to constant improvements in diagnostic methods, ...

ABSTRACT Background: Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy characterised by hypertension and proteinuria. It is one of the main reasons for foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality. A number of physiological changes ...

Retinoblastoma is a rare cancer of the eye, usually diagnosed within the first year of life. Although it is rare, it is the most common primary eye tumour of childhood. Life expectancy following treatment is now excellent, ...

The aim of this study was to shed light on the practice of referral to a sleep clinic with suspected obstructive sleep apnea hypapnea syndrome(OSAHS). The hypothesis was that the accuracy of referrals could be significantly ...