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, ...

The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen ... Your heart, lungs, and the upper part of your esophagus (food pipe) are in the thoracic cavity above the diaphragm.

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 ...

It’s a strange coincidence, one that happens only every few decades, for Inauguration Day to happen on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr.’s remembrance. It’s an awkward pairing this time ...

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 ...

Tobacco-associated trachea, bronchus, and lung (TBL) cancer mortality is declining, while ambient particulate matter (PM)-associated TBL cancer mortality is increasing.

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