Gauri Mankekar

Assistant Professor

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

Latest Contribution

Macrolinguistic assessment in early Alzheimer’s disease

1 September 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy

Deficits in language production like word finding difficulty, and lexical-sematic impairment have been documented early in the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). According to the authors, the current language assessment methods used in AD patients do not account for macrolinguistic...

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Single surgery for repair of tegmen defects and superior semicircular canal dehiscence

1 September 2019 | | Neurotology, Rhinoplasty | cerebrospinal fluid leak or fistula, Encephalocele, Intracranial pressure, Middle cranial fossa, Superior semicircular canal, Temporal bone

This retrospective review of 34 patients undergoing repair of the temporal bone defect via the middle cranial fossa approach provides the author’s management strategy for two problems: superior semicircular canal dehiscence and tegmen defects. The incidence of both these pathologies...

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Paediatric versus adult pituitary adenomas

1 September 2019 | | Rhinoplasty | Pediatric pituitary adenomas, Pituitary tumors, Transsphenoidal surgery

This retrospective study compares paediatric with adult patients undergoing pituitary adenoma surgery over a period of 26 years at a single institution. All surgeries were performed via a sublabial approach using the operating microscope. An endoscope was used occasionally for...