Background International experience with coronavirus 2019 (COVID‐19) suggests it poses
a significant risk of infectious transmission to skull base surgeons, due to high nasal viral …

Odontogenic sinusitis has distinct pathophysiology, diagnostic considerations, microbiology,
and treatment strategies whenever compared with chronic rhinosinusitis. Clinicians who …

A general model of neural development is derived to fit 18 mammalian species, including
humans, macaques, several rodent species, and six metatherian (marsupial) mammals. The …

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a prevalent and heterogeneous disease associated with a
high degree of morbidity. Although there exist specific conditions for diagnosis, it has been …

Objective In the era of SARS-CoV-2, the risk of infectious airborne aerosol generation during
otolaryngologic procedures has been an area of increasing concern. The objective of this …

Background Pan-bacterial 16S rRNA microbiome surveys performed with massively parallel
DNA sequencing technologies have transformed community microbiological studies. …

Background IL-25 can function as an early signal for the respiratory type 2 response
characteristic of allergic asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). In the …

Background: COVID-19 has become a global pandemic with a dramatic impact on
healthcare systems. Concern for viral transmission necessitates the investigation of otologic …

Background Lung transplant recipients commonly develop invasive fungal infections (IFIs),
but the most effective strategies to prevent IFIs following lung transplantation are not known. …

… Aulus Cornelius Celsus, in his text entitled De Medicina from the first century AD, described
similar surgical techniques including nasal reconstruction, further substantiating an early …