Gauri Mankekar

Assistant Professor

Department of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

Latest Contribution

Review: Cochlear Implantation in SSD?

1 March 2015 | | Binaural hearing, Cochlear implantation, Contra-lateral routing of signals, Hearing aid, Single-sided deafness, Spatial listening, Unilateral hearing loss

Contra lateral routing of signals (CROS) using hearing aids and bone conduction devices has been the conventionally accepted modality for the treatment of single sided hearing impairment. The CROS hearing aid has been found to improve speech understanding in noise,...

Incidental findings in paranasal sinus Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-ENT | Fluid, Incidental findings, MRI, Mucosal thickening, Opacification, Paranasal sinuses, Polyps, Population-based study, Retention cysts

Incidental findings in the paranasal sinuses of mucosal thickening and polyps in MRI studies may cause concerns for clinicians and patients. The authors studied MRIs of 982 participants with a mean age of 58.5 years who randomly and independent of...

Long-term outcomes after endoscopic pituitary macroadenomas resection

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-ENT

In this retrospective study the authors attempted to find out long-term outcomes after pituitary macroadenoma resection via the endonasal endoscopic transsphenoidal route. Eighty of the 162 patients operated on met the study criteria of clinical and radiological follow-up for at...