NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children undergoing tonsillectomy, preoperative injection of lidocaine plus bupivacaine, with or without clonidine, does not reduce the use of analgesics in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis accompanied by nasal polyps, treatment first with oral steroids followed by topical steroids is more effective than just…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with nasal polyposis, polypectomy is a “valuable alternative” to radical ethmoidectomy, a French team reports in the February issue of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the workup of patients with early esophageal neoplasia, endoscopic ultrasound is unreliable for identifying submucosal infiltration and lymph node involvement — the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with papillary thyroid cancer who undergo lobectomy do as well as those who undergo total thyroidectomy, while external beam radiation is associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The problem of drooling in children with neurological disorders can be relieved in about half of cases by injections of botulinum toxin into…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative dexamethasone does not boost the risk of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage, according to a large retrospective study reported in the August Archives of Otolaryngology…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among children with sore throat, more than a third probably have group A streptococcal infection, a study shows. Furthermore, about one in every…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors should make sure immunizations are up to date before cochlear implant surgery in children, new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perturbed sleep and high blood pressure aren’t the only consequences of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). New data suggest that OSA is common in…