The Laryngoscope
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Reducing post-tonsillectomy pain with cryoanalgesia: a randomized controlled trial.
To evaluate the use of cryoanalgesia in reducing post-tonsillectomy pain. ⋯ Cryotherapy is a new technique that significantly reduces post-tonsillectomy pain without evidence of causing additional complications.
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Comparative Study
Transcranial magnetic stimulation in acute facial nerve injury.
Available electrodiagnostic tests that are used to evaluate facial nerve injury examine the nerve distal to the stylomastoid foramen; because most facial nerve injuries are within the temporal bone, the tests cannot evaluate the nerve at or across the injury site. The interpretation of these tests depends on the predictability (or unpredictability) of distal degenerative process. Transcranial magnetic stimulation may be able to stimulate the nerve proximal to the injury site. The hypothesis of the present study is that in cases of mild traumatic facial nerve injury where axonal integrity is maintained, proximal stimulation of the nerve using higher than normal stimulus intensities to "overcome" the block at the injury site result in recordable facial nerve activity. ⋯ In cats transcranial magnetic stimulation can assess the integrity of the facial nerve after trauma and predict its potential for regeneration. This technique can excite the nerve proximal to the injury site and may play a role in the clinical evaluation of the acute traumatic facial nerve paralysis. It can be used immediately after trauma, because it does not depend on wallerian degeneration to occur.