[Congenital dacryocystocele: Surgical treatment or routine follow-up?].

Introduction: Congenital dacryocystoceles are rare and often misunderstood pathologies. Their treatment varies and consists in simple follow-up, lacrimal catheterization or endoscopic surgical drainage, depending on medical teams. The aim of our study was to discuss the place of endoscopic drainage in the treatment of congenital dacryocystocele.

Thyroglossal duct surgery. Sistrunk procedure.

Midline cysts of the neck are the most common congenital malformations of the neck. They arise along the thyroglossal duct. The presence of a fistula is the result of either spontaneous (suppuration) or surgical fistulisation (simple incision or incomplete excision).

Diagnostic value of various investigations in children with suspected foreign body aspiration: review.

Introduction: Foreign body aspiration is a serious condition during childhood that requires prompt management to avoid complications and irreversible lung injury. Rigid bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia is the procedure of choice for removal of aspirated foreign bodies, but it can be associated with serious complications. The positive diagnosis can sometimes be challenging except in the case of radiopaque or obstructive foreign bodies, due to the low sensitivity and specificity of clinical history and physical examination.

Non-traumatic nasal septal abscess due to acute spheno-ethmoiditis.

Non-traumatic nasal septal abscesses (NSAs) are rare and those associated with acute sinusitis are even rarer. We report a case of a 12-year-old female child with NSA and complicating acute spheno-ethmoiditis that was diagnosed by physical examination and computed tomography (CT) scan. The NSA was treated by surgical incision and drainage of the abscess, endoscopic aspiration of pus from the spheno-ethmoidal recess, systemic antibiotic therapy, and nasal cleansing.