Systematic Review of Hearing Preservation After Radiotherapy for Vestibular Schwannoma.

Objective: To determine the long-term hearing preservation rate for spontaneous vestibular schwannoma treated by primary radiotherapy.

Data Sources: The MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Reviews, and EMBASE databases were searched using a comprehensive Boolean keyword search developed in conjunction with a scientific librarian. English language papers published from 2000 to 2016 were evaluated.

Serial office-based steroid injections for treatment of idiopathic subglottic stenosis.

Objectives/hypothesis: Current treatment options for idiopathic subglottic stenosis include endoscopic interventions, resection, and tracheotomy. Recently, serial office-based steroid injections were proposed as an alternative that may stabilize or induce regression of airway stenosis without the need for repeated operations. Procedure completion rate, pain, complications, effect on stenosis, time since the last operation, and limitations have not been described.

Bone-anchored hearing aid and skin graft removal with subsequent cochlear implantation.

We describe a novel technique of scalp flap rearrangement for cochlear implant (CI) candidates who have previously undergone ipsilateral bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) placement. One patient with single-sided deafness (SSD) underwent removal of a BAHA with subsequent scalp rearrangement for coverage of the implant site. After adequate healing of the scalp rotational flap, he underwent uncomplicated cochlear implantation without soft tissue complications.