Search for dissertations about: "Otorhinolaryngology"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 158 swedish dissertations containing the word Otorhinolaryngology.

  2. 11. Visual influences on vestibular compensation and postural control

    Author : Anna Hafström; Lund näs- och halssjukdomar Öron-; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Otorhinolaryngology; audiology; auditive system and speech; Otorinolaryngologi; Medicin människa och djur ; Vestibular schwannoma; Alcohol intoxication.; Medicine human and vertebrates ; Vestibular deafferentation; Visual-vestibular interactions; Subjective visual horizontal and vertical; Visual dependence; Utriculus; Balance; Vision; audiologi; hörsel- och talorganen;

    Abstract : This thesis aimed to investigate visual-vestibular interactions in healthy subjects and in patients with a well defined unilateral vestibular lesion (vestibular schwannoma before and six months after translabyrinthine surgery). Visual information is particularly important for balance control during perturbed stance. READ MORE

  4. 12. The effects of plasminogen deficiency on the healing of tympanic membrane perforations

    Author : Annika Hansson; Sten Hellström; Diana Berggren; Tor Ny; Magnus von Unge; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; tympanic membrane; macrophages; neutrophils; fibrin ogen ; inflammation; keratinocyte migration; wound healing; uPA; tPA; in vitro; Otorhinolaryngology; Otorhinolaryngologi;

    Abstract : The healing of tympanic membrane (TM) perforations is a complex wound healing process including inflammation, migration of keratinocytes and tissue remodelling. Most TM perforations in human heal spontaneously, however some perforations become chronic, and the reason to why is still largely unknown. READ MORE

  5. 13. Specific Language Impairment in Swedish: Grammar and Interaction

    Author : Kristina Hansson; foniatri och audiologi Logopedi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Otorhinolaryngology; interaction; mazes; subordination; word order; verb forms; grammar; Swedish; specific language impairment; audiology; auditive system and speech; Otorinolaryngologi; audiologi; hörsel- och talorganen;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this work was to explore grammar in Swedish children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), that is children with impaired language development in the presence of normal hearing and otherwise normal development. In four differents studies, spontaneous data from six children with SLI were analysed and compared with data from either younger children with phonological impairment but normal grammar (PI), or from younger controls with typical development. READ MORE

  6. 14. Dizziness and fear of falling: A behavioural and physiological approach to Phobic Postural Vertigo

    Author : Johan Holmberg; Lund näs- och halssjukdomar Öron-; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; klinisk psykologi; psykosomatik; Psychiatry; audiologi; Otorinolaryngologi; audiology; Otorhinolaryngology; clinical; patients; exposure; behaviour; cognitive; psychological; psychotherapy; proprioceptive; postural control; Anxiety; Psykiatri; clinical psychology; hörsel- och talorganen; auditive system and speech; psychosomatics;

    Abstract : Dizziness is a common problem and it often co-exists with anxiety. Level of anxiety is the best predictor of handicap for dizzy patients. There is diagnostic controversy and few treatment programs for such patients. READ MORE

  7. 15. On Predictive Factors of Treatment Response in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Author : Fredrik Jerhammar; Karin Roberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Otorhinolaryngology; Otorhinolaryngologi;

    Abstract : Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most common cancer and yearly include 500 000 new cases worldwide. The outcomes for these patients have not been significantly improved over the last decades and the five year survival is still around 50 %. READ MORE