OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To identify allegations raised in litigation stemming from pediatric otolaryngologic procedures and conditions. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a legal database. METHODS The authors reviewed jury verdict and settlement reports on the WestlawNext database from 1994 to 2013 for cases involving pediatric plaintiffs and alleged negligence in otolaryngologic procedur...

A 76-year-old male presented to the Otolaryngology clinic for an incidental right nasopharyngeal mass. The patient has a history of type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea treated with continuous positive airway pressure, and polio. Past otolaryngologic surgical included tonsillectomy. Four months prior, was evaluated scalp lesions that were diagnosed as sebaceous carcinomas. Resultant screeni...

28 We examined developmental programming studies that reported sex-specific effects 29 published between 2012 and 2014, and examined whether the authors reported a 30 statistical approach to explicitly test whether the effect of treatment differed between the 31 sexes, e.g., a sex by treatment interaction term. Less than half of the studies that reported 32 sex-specific effects described explic...

The planning of large infrastructure projects such as inner-city subway tracks is a highly collaborative process in which numerous experts from different domains are involved. While performing the planning task, widely differing scales have to be taken into consideration, ranging from the kilometer scale for the general routing of the track down to the centimeter scale for the detailed design o...

BACKGROUND Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are commonly administered as part of a multimodal regimen for pain management in the ambulatory setting. This randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study was designed to compare the analgesic effect of oral rofecoxib, a cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, and acetaminophen when administered alone or in combination prior to outpatient otolaryngolog...