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Poliquin Resident Research Competition 2016

We are pleased to present the collection of papers that comprised the Poliquin Resident Research Competition that was held at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. All projects were showcased at the Annual Meeting and the submitted manuscripts have undergone rigorous peer review to be accepted for publication in Journal Otolarynoglogy - Head & Neck Surgery.

Any residents currently in a Canadian Otolaryngology-HNS training program is eligible to enter. The competition recognizes, in memoriam, Dr. Jacques Poliquin, who was a prominent otolaryngologist, researcher, and educator who fostered this competition in its formative years.

Publication charges for this collection were funded by Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. All articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process.

View all collections in Journal of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery.

  1. For early stage supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), single modality treatment either in the form of primary organ preservation surgery alone or radiation alone is recommended. Thus, a definite treatmen...

    Authors: Krupal B. Patel, Anthony C. Nichols, Kevin Fung, John Yoo and S. Danielle MacNeil
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2018 47:19
    Content type: Original research article Published on:

  2. Practice variability exists for the extent of neck dissection undertaken for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) metastatic to the lateral neck nodes, with disagreement over routine level V dissection.

    Authors: Jason J. Xu, Eugene Yu, Caitlin McMullen, Jesse Pasternak, Jim Brierley, Richard Tsang, Han Zhang, Antoine Eskander, Lorne Rotstein, Anna M. Sawka, Ralph Gilbert, Jonathan Irish, Patrick Gullane, Dale Brown, John R. de Almeida and David P. Goldstein
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:43
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  3. Research productivity is an important component of the CanMEDS Scholar role and is an accreditation requirement of Canadian Otolaryngology training programs. Our objective was to determine if an association ex...

    Authors: Scott Kohlert, Laura Zuccaro, Laurie McLean and Kristian Macdonald
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:34
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  4. Plate-related complications following head and neck cancer ablation and reconstruction remains a challenging problem often requiring further management and reconstructive surgeries. We aim to identify an assoc...

    Authors: Christopher M. Yao, Hedyeh Ziai, Gordon Tsang, Andrea Copeland, Dale Brown, Jonathan C. Irish, Ralph W. Gilbert, David P. Goldstein, Patrick J. Gullane and John R. de Almeida
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:30
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  5. Thyroid incidentaloma is defined as an unsuspected thyroid lesion found on imaging study or while performing a surgery non-related to the thyroid gland. Most recent scientific literature tends to demonstrate a...

    Authors: N. Hagenimana, J. Dallaire, É. Vallée and M. Belzile
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:22
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  6. HPV infection causes cervical cancer, mediated in part by the degradation of Scribble via the HPV E6 oncoprotein. Recently, Scribble has been shown to be an important regulator of the Hippo signaling cascade. ...

    Authors: Faisal Alzahrani, Leanne Clattenburg, Shanmugam Muruganandan, Martin Bullock, Kaitlyn MacIsaac, Michael Wigerius, Blair A. Williams, M. Elise R. Graham, Matthew H. Rigby, Jonathan R. B. Trites, S. Mark Taylor, Christopher J. Sinal, James P. Fawcett and Robert D. Hart
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:15
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  7. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery resident physicians (OHNSR) have a high prevalence of burnout, job dissatisfaction and stress as shown within the literature. Formal mentorship programs (FMP) have a proven...

    Authors: Han Zhang, Andre Isaac, Erin D. Wright, Yaser Alrajhi and Hadi Seikaly
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:13
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  8. Adenotonsillectomy is the most commonly performed operation for pediatric snoring/sleep disordered breathing (S/SDB). However, 20–40% of patients will fail to improve. Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) may p...

    Authors: Malak Jamal Gazzaz, André Isaac, Scott Anderson, Noura Alsufyani, Yaser Alrajhi and Hamdy El-Hakim
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:12
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  9. The objective of this study was to validate our approach of treating primary hyperparathyroidism using sestamibi scan directed parathyroidectomy, without routine use of intraoperative parathyroid hormone measu...

    Authors: Alexandra Thielmann and Paul Kerr
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:10
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  10. The incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) caused by oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) is rising worldwide. HPV-OPSCC is commonly diagnosed by RT-qPCR of HPV E6 and E7 oncoproteins or by...

    Authors: Andre Isaac, Morris Kostiuk, Han Zhang, Cameron Lindsay, Fawaz Makki, Daniel A. O’Connell, Jeffrey R. Harris, David W. J. Cote, Hadi Seikaly and Vincent L. Biron
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2017 46:5
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  11. In recent decades, the incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) has been rising worldwide as a result of increasing oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in the oropharynx. EZH2 is ...

    Authors: Sherif Idris, Cameron Lindsay, Morris Kostiuk, Colin Andrews, David W. J. Côté, Daniel A. O’Connell, Jeffrey Harris, Hadi Seikaly and Vincent L. Biron
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2016 45:54
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  12. Guidelines and text-book descriptions of the Rinne test advise orienting the tuning fork tines in parallel with the longitudinal axis of the external auditory canal (EAC), presumably to maximise the amplitude ...

    Authors: Oleksandr Butskiy, Denny Ng, Murray Hodgson and Desmond A. Nunez
    Citation: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 2016 45:21
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