{"title":"[Changes in the hearing and discomfort thresholds in patients with the Clark/nucleus inner ear prosthesis].","authors":"R D Battmer, E Lehnhardt, R Laszig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Nucleus 22-electrode cochlear implant should be fitted individually for both pitch and loudness. Loudness is related to the charge delivered, and is usually controlled by current amplitude. In special cases the loudness may be influenced by stimulation mode and pulse width. 3 examples demonstrate optimal fitting with low current intensities, using these possibilities. In addition the threshold level and comfortable level date were analysed over a 2-year period. No significant changes were found, indicating that electrical stimulation caused no damage to the remaining auditory nerve fibres.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 8","pages":"412-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The fixation theory of middle ear muscle function].","authors":"K B Hüttenbrink","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The still unidentified function of the middle ear muscles might be explained by the fixation theory. However, this idea, which is being favoured nowadays, namely, that the action of the muscles controls the position of the ossicles for optimal transmission, has never been investigated experimentally except for a few studies 50 and 100 years ago. In 25 temporal bone preparations, the air pressure-induced movements of the ossicles were microscopically measured, at first without and then with a 10 g. load on the tensor tympani muscle and a 5 g. load on the m. stapedius. The fixation hypothesis could not be confirmed, since with increasing pressure the movement-reducing effect of the middle ear muscle pull decreased. This inability of the muscles to compensate higher static air pressures is also demonstrated theoretically. A 10 g. pull of the tensor tympani muscle can only withstand a suction of 30 mm H2O in the ear canal. Hence, further evaluations are discussed that seem to enforce our hypothesis of the joint-preserving function of the middle ear muscles. The required antagonism of the pull of the muscle is accomplished by the change of the direction of movement in the gliding incudo-malleal joint.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 8","pages":"404-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Squamous cell carcinoma antigen. Current clinical value of a new tumor marker in head and neck cancer; preliminary results of a prospective study after 12 months].","authors":"B Clasen, D Roettger, R Senekowitsch, E Menz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The serum SCC antigen levels of patients with head and neck tumours are being studied in a prospective study to evaluate their clinical relevance. Concentrations above 2 ng/ml are considered to be abnormal. Preliminary results of the study after a 12-month period including 167 patients are reported: In only 28% of the patients with actual carcinoma of the head and neck the serum levels were pathological (Fig. 6), most commonly in oropharyngeal tumours (nearly 50%). The incidence of abnormal SCC-antigen concentration only rarely increased with increasing tumour extension (Fig. 7), but to a considerably greater extent in well-differentiated than in poorly or non-differentiated squamous cell carcinomas (Fig. 8). Tendencies, but no statistically significant correlation, were found between the Karnofsky index and the serum levels (Fig. 9) - as well as between the time of remission after successful tumour treatment and decreasing serum concentrations (Fig. 10). At the time of recurrence of the tumour, SCC-antigen serum levels had not been able to predict the clinical recurrence (Fig. 11). Since the assessment of SCC-antigen concentration is neither highly specific nor sensitive, the usefulness of this tumour marker test must be--at least according to the present state of the art--regarded as rather low.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 8","pages":"420-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Adenoid cystic carcinomas of the head and neck. Results of treatment with high-dosage radiotherapy].","authors":"K F Kreitner, D Collo, S Zapf, J Kutzner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Different opinions exist about the role of radiotherapy in the treatment of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck. In this paper the results of 14 patients with high-dosage irradiation are reported. Radiotherapy with local curative intent was performed in all patients. 10/14 patients were irradiated post-operatively. 4/14 patients received radiation therapy alone. By percutaneous irradiation (n = 13) focal doses of 80 Gy were applied, by interstitial irradiation (n = 1) 70 Gy. Despite the less favourable patient group - 8/14 patients had either a T3- or T4-tumour; 5/14 patients were referred because of recurrent disease - local tumour control could be achieved in all cases after a mean observation time of 3.5 years. Together with newer reports of literature we consider adenoid cystic carcinomas of salivary gland origin as locally curable by postoperative high-dosage radiotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 8","pages":"426-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13987808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A severe late tonsillar hemorrhage 2 months postoperatively].","authors":"H Swoboda, B Welleschik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tonsilloadenoidectomy performed on an 8-year old girl, in the course of which heavy bleeding from the left niche was staunched by suture ligation, was complicated from the 7th day onwards by severe haemorrhages at intervals from 5 to 25 days, causing life-threatening hypovolaemia. Haemorrhages started mostly in the early morning hours and ceased spontaneously. Revision of the left niche was undertaken shortly after the 5th bleeding two months postoperatively. After removal of the almost completely restituted mucosal covering, spreading of a haemosiderinstained canal released a massive pulsating haemorrhage which was controlled by ligation of the external carotid artery and suturing of the tonsillar bed. As the origin of the haemorrhage, an arterial lesion either by tonsil enucleation or by suture ligation is discussed. Attention is drawn to the possibility that certain branches of the external carotid artery may be positioned very close to the inferior half of the tonsil.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 8","pages":"431-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Possibilities and limits of speech audiometry in non-German speaking foreigners].","authors":"B Pazdzierniak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The possibility of testing the discrimination for monosyllabic words in the so-called \"Freiburger-Sprachtest by Hahlbrock\" in foreigners, who are unable to speak or to understand the German language, is discussed in the literature with different results. Most of the authors and experts advocate the opinion, that the monosyllabic word test (with test words in German) is not valid for foreigners. In our own medical expertizing we found, that this opinion is incorrect and invalid. Foreigners unable to speak or understand German can be examined with the monosyllabic discrimination test by Hahlbrock. The results were fully comparable with the results from Germans. To safeguard these results of discrimination tests, 50 randomized foreigners without any knowledge of German were examined under exact conditions in the same way as Germans. The result of these examinations prove the possibility of testing the discrimination for monosyllabic words in foreigners, who cannot speak or understand German words, via the Hahlbrock test or whispering word test.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 7","pages":"326-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Some recent results and developments in dermatovenerology].","authors":"T Nasemann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our own results in dermatology are highlighted, such as the oral \"hairy\" leukoplakia associated with AIDS, treatment with Acyclovir for herpetic infections, laser therapy for angiomas, Lyme disease, x-ray therapy in Kaposi's sarcomas, photosensitivity reactions by treatment with thiazid diuretics and follicular mucinosis associated with T-cell lymphomas (mycosis fungoides).</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 7","pages":"343-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A lidocaine base for surface anesthesia of the tympanic membrane].","authors":"J Strutz, C Zöllner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An anatomical study was conducted to determine the effects of 10% lidocain base (dissolved in DMSO) on the structure of the tympanic membrane. Survival times ranged from 1 day to 3 months. Membranes were embedded in plastic and cut in semithin sections. Within 1 and 3 days mild swelling of the epithelium was seen; 1 month after treatment the connective tissue layers of the lamina propria were severely hyperplastic. 2 months after lidocain-Base application additional collagen fibres, loosely packed and less regularly, appeared in the submucosal connective tissue layer. However, normal appearance of the drums was noticeable after 3 months survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 7","pages":"340-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hoarseness].","authors":"F Klingholz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>By means of measuring fundamental frequency, amplitude and voice quality (signal-to-noise ratio) of voiced signal segments in speech, a three-dimensional representation was established. The record of voice quality versus pitch and intensity overcomes all the disadvantages which are met within the voice field (sustained vowels, extreme voice sound pressures, missing quality information etc.).</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 7","pages":"346-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14340278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Laryngeal cancer in immunosuppressive therapy with cyclosporin A].","authors":"S Ballhaus, G Grevers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a serious side effect of immunosuppressive therapy following organ transplantation, the incidence of malignancies shows a significant threefold increase compared with the age-matched general population. Under treatment with conventional immunosuppressive drugs (azathioprine, steroids and antilymphocyte globulin) patients are supposed to be susceptible to skin and lip cancers (40%) whereas the recently introduced new immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine A shows a comparable incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (41%) and the patients seem to develop more potentially life threatening tumours of internal organs. In the present paper we report on a case of laryngeal carcinoma following immunosuppressive treatment with cyclosporine A 10 months after heart transplantation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76098,"journal":{"name":"Laryngologie, Rhinologie, Otologie","volume":"67 7","pages":"369-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14194517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}