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Biotechnological Approaches in Remediation of Arsenic from Soil and Water
Arsenic contamination in soil and water poses significant environmental and health risks. This chapter explores biotechnological approaches for arsenic remediation. It begins by discussing arsenic-induced carc...
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Prevention of “bygone futures” due to road traffic injuries in children
Road traffic injuries remain one of the common and leading causes of death among children and adolescents till the age of 19 years. Road safety is important for children since their physical activity, active t...
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Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation from Mobile Phones on Auditory Brainstem Response
Mobile phones are being used by around 70% of the global population. A simple non-invasive procedure to detect early impairment of the acoustic nerve and auditory pathway is by auditory brainstem response (ABR...
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Spectrum of Handicap in Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss (USNHL) can present with varying symptoms apart from hearing loss, such as dizziness and tinnitus. Impaired sound localization, inability to identify speech in noise and d...
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Role of Blood Investigations in Idiopathic Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Majority of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss are idiopathic. Hence, outcome depends on factors which are associated with nature of disease and its treatment. These can be sudden or progressive. Various st...
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Tele Otology in India: Last 10 Years—A Scopic Review
Hearing loss is the commonest sensory deficit among humans, affecting 466 million people worldwide. Early detection is the key to hearing rehabilitation, as speech and language develops early in the childhood....
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Metastasis in Sinonasal Region Revealing a Silent Primary: A Series of 2 Cases with Review of Literature
Metastasis to the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses are very rare and only few cases have been reported so far. Metastatic nasal mass with silent primary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is even rarer. So are giant...
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Head and Neck Lipomas at Uncommon Subsites: A Series of Four Cases
Lipomas are benign soft tissue tumors; the most common ones present in subcutaneous planes distributed throughout the body. However, there are few sites which are unusual location for lipomas. Here, we discuss...
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Subjective and Objective Assessment of Effect of Allergic Rhinitis on Voice in Indian Patients
To perform a subjective and objective assessment of vocal complaints in patients of allergic rhinitis (AR) using voice handicap index and video-stroboscopy respectively and find the association of their parame...
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Supernumerary Tooth: Endoscopic Removal for a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epistaxis
The presence of ectopic (supernumerary) teeth is common odontogenic problem in clinical practice. Its presence in dentate region is common but rare in the non dentate areas such as nose and maxillary sinus. Th...
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First Report on Concomitant Infection of Nasal Myiasis and Trichosporonosis in an Uncontrolled Diabetic Patient: Case Report
Myiasis is an infestation of living tissue of animals or humans by fly larvae. It is quite common in tropical countries due to hot and humid climates. Trichosporonosis is an invasive disseminated fungal infect...
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Novel Modifications to Total Maxillary Swing Approach in Extensive Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma to Minimize Complications
Maxillary swing approaches provide excellent exposure of the anterior, mid, and anterolateral skull base offering a wide window to approach nasopharyngeal neoplasms; however, they are also associated with comp...
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Microscopic Parotidectomy: A Prospective Study
To assess the parameters’ setting of the microscope during parotidectomy and the impact of microscopic parotidectomy on facial nerve functional status. A prospective study was conducted on 28 patients in a ter...
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Isolated Acute Sphenoid Fungal Sinusitis with Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis: Our Experience
Isolated lesions of the sphenoid sinus are uncommon. Cavernous sinus thrombosis is generally sought due to a systemic disease rather than a local pathology. It may be due to hidden primary pathology like isola...
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Incidence of Anosmia among Covid 19 patients in India
The pandemic COVID-19 has relentlessly caused havoc to human life since its outbreak in December 2019. The disease has been a challenge for all. The clinical manifestations of Covid-19 ranges from no symptoms ...
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The Clinical–Audiological Cross Sectional Study of Deaf-Mute Patients in a Tertiary Care Centre of Uttarakhand State and Literature Review
Deafmutism affects communication and wholesome development of an individual. India has a significant burden of deafness in the country. Even fourteen years after the launch of a National Program for Prevention...
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Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss (USNHL): A Retrospective Study of Incidence
This retrospective study was carried out to know the incidence of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (USNHL) (type and degree). (1) To know the incidence of USNHL (other ear being normal) in patients underg...
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Dynamic Demand Planning for Distorted Historical Data Due to Pandemic
COVID-19 has caused a series of cascading crises in demand planning and the overall supply chain. Two side impacts of COVOID-19 can be seen for most companies, change in the order volume and order mix of deman...
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Sphenoid Sinus and Related Neurovascular Structures—Anatomical Relations and Variations on Radiology—A Retrospective Study
The aim of this study was to evaluate sphenoid sinus pneumatisation and its anatomical relation with adjacent neurovascular structures in Indian population. We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study, ...
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Open AccessD-dimer, disease severity, and deaths (3D-study) in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 100 studies
Hypercoagulability and the need for prioritizing coagulation markers for prognostic abilities have been highlighted in COVID-19. We aimed to quantify the associations of D-dimer with disease progression in pat...
