These devices allow patients to produce voice by redirecting air from the trachea into the esophagus, creating sound. A study examining the long-term results of voice prosthesis use found that ...

Safety issues include misplacement of the tube into the lung or small intestine, migration of the tube outside of the stomach, perforation of the trachea, esophagus, or stomach, and aspiration of ...

A goiter is a benign (non-cancerous) enlargement of the thyroid gland. If the thyroid becomes too large, it can compress the trachea and/or esophagus and create problems with breathing, swallowing, ...

Swallowed gum can become stuck in the throat too. It may become lodged in the esophagus, but a more life-threatening concern is if gum gets stuck in the trachea and blocks the airway passage to the ...

esophagus; P, paratracheal lymph node; R, recurrent nervous lymph node; RLD, right lymphatic duct; TD, thoracic duct; Tr, trachea; UCLC, upper cervical lymphatic chain. The blue and black arrows ...

To control epilepsy symptoms, these patients underwent a surgery to separate the left and right hemispheres. Similar surgeries still happen today. Later research on this type of surgery showed ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. On February 1, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico—the United States’ largest trading partners. U.S ...

To control epilepsy symptoms, these patients underwent a surgery to separate the left and right hemispheres. Similar surgeries still happen today. Later research on this type of surgery showed ...

Roki Sasaki did what everyone expected him to do all along — he picked the Los Angeles Dodgers. The defending World Series champs just added the favorite to win the NL Rookie of the Year award ...

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