Influence of the Electrode Array Design on Incidence of Vertigo Symptoms and Vestibular Function After Cochlear Implantation.

Purpose: To evaluate if a specific type of cochlear implant (CI) electrode array (EA) reveals higher rates/prevalence of vestibular symptoms and to characterize their respective relationship to intracochlear position and objective vestibular function.

Methods: This retrospective study included 71 cochlear implantations in patients older than 18 years. The electrode position within the cochlea, electrode insertion angle, and cochlear coverage were determined from postoperative multiplanar reconstructed cone-beam computed tomography scans.

[Screening of the atypical oral mucosa lesions].

ViziLite system was used for mucosal lesions screening in 55 patients 22 of whom showed visible changes in the oral mucosa. Diagnoses were confirmed morphologically. Authors diagnostic algorithm for precancerous lesions of the oral mucosa is presented in the paper.

[Modern clinical and radiological approach to diagnostics of odontogenic sinusitis].

Inflammatory diseases of the maxillary sinuses affect up to 70% of the adult population. Odontogenic maxillary sinusitis represents 13-86% of the inflammatory processes of maxillofacial area, with the incidence range being explained rather by varying diagnosis criteria than the true incidence difference of odontogenic lesions. The aim of the study was to summarize the clinical and radiological characteristics of odontogenic sinusitis according to patients records in the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery of Omsk Clinical Hospital No11 and the oral surgery department of BUZ GKSP No1 in 2009-2014.