News for Physicians from Johns Hopkins Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
By modifying a muscle transplant operation, Kofi Boahene and colleagues restore more natural-looking, even smiles to patients with one-sided facial paralysis resulting from stroke, brain surgery, Bell’s palsy or other conditions.
Gene Fridman and Yun Guan investigate the idea of safe, implantable medical devices using direct electrical current to block pain signals.
Head and neck surgeon Christine Gourin peformed a supraglottic laryngectomy followed later by a Montgomery tracheal cannula to save patient Alfred Friendly Jr.’s voice and air way function.
The Johns Hopkins Sinus Center is home to a world-class multidisciplinary team treating a host of sinus conditions—from the common to the most complex. It is also among a handful of centers offering sublingual immunotherapy for children and adults with allergies.
