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The safety and efficacy of alternating chemoradiotherapy using cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil were retrospectively examined in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.

The overall comlete response rate was 93% with preserving renal function.

The 5-year overall survival and progression-free survival rates were 83.7% and 88.9%, respectively.

Treatment compliance, the 5-year overall survival rate and the 5-year overall survival rate are comparable to that of previous reports.

Alternating chemoradiotherapy using cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients was well tolerated with acceptable efficacy.

SVV test evaluates the static otolith system and, cervical and ocular VEMPs, examines the dynamic.

SVV, with the bucket method, and cervical and ocular VEMPs, contribute to the assessment of vestibulopathies.

SVV and cervical and ocular VEMPs together, are advantageous to assess otolith disorders in Meniere’s disease.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the rate of vertigo and exacerbated it.

Health anxiety levels are higher in vertigo patients.

There is a causal/trigger relationship between the current pandemic and coronavirus anxiety.

Vertigo patients have a high rate of anxiety disorder.

Weight loss promotes an increase in the area of the retropalatal region, especially in the lateral pharyngeal region.

There is volumetric reduction of several soft structures of the pharynx, with emphasis on fat and tongue fat deposits.

The airway height decreased, moving the hyoid closer to the posterior nasal spine and reducing the distance between hyoid to chin.

Few studies with a good level of scientific evidence objectively describe the changes in the airways caused by weight loss.

Post caloric recruitment index is the ratio between cold and warm stimulation.

Post caloric recruitment index is useful to identify the affected ear separately.

Video head impulse test did not prove to be a good predictor of post caloric recruitment.

Thiamine is very important for both pregnancy and the continuation of pregnancy.

Even though ABR is normal, degeneration occurs in IHC even if the thiamine deficiency is compensated with thiamine supplementation in the postnatal period.

If the thiamine deficiency continues in the perinatal period also in the postnatal period, significant deterioration in ABR and significant degeneration in IHC occur.

If there is no deficiency in the perinatal period, but thiamine deficiency occurs in the postnatal period, there is no degeneration in the hair cells.

However, more studies are needed to support this issue

Cluster headache is a primary trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia.

Invasive therapies have been reported and can be medication-sparing.

The sphenopalatine ganglion is implicated in autonomic cephalalgias.

We describe a new technique for sphenopalatine ganglion neurostimulation.

Endoscopy-guided percutaneous access adds precision and should reduce morbidity.

A selection of recent RCT studies on salivary pepsin diagnosis.

50 ng/mL is the current threshold for high diagnostic efficacy of salivary pepsin.

Current salivary pepsin has a low diagnostic efficacy for pepsin.

Increasing the diagnostic threshold improves diagnostic efficacy of salivary pepsin.

Copy Number Alterations (CNAs) was investigated in specimens of Reinke’s Edema (RE).

Microarray analysis revealed different rare CNAs in six of eight RE cases evaluated.

Four RE samples presented CNAs encompassing genes related to cancer development.