Allergic rhinitis improvement after septorhinoplasty in a sample of allergic rhinitis patients with septal deviation: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects almost 30% of the adult population.

Objective: To describe and compare the evolution of symptoms in patients diagnosed with AR and septal deviation prior to and following septoplasty (STP).

Design And Setting: Quasi-experimental study developed in A Coruña University Hospital.

A unilateral septal flap based on the anterior ethmoidal artery (Castelnuovo's flap): CT cadaver study.

Objective: We describe our experience for repair septal perforation with a septal flap and we analyse the route of the septal branch of the anterior ethmoidal artery (AEA) in the septum area with a radiological anatomy study in order to perform this flap.

Study Design: We carry out a prospective analysis with computed tomography scan in the cadaver heads and we perform an endoscopic technique in the patients.

Methods: Ten nasal cavities were analysed in five adult cadaveric heads and two patients diagnosed with anterior septal perforation were surgically treated.

[Functional and aesthetic results after augmentation rhinoplasty].

Introduction: Augmentation rhinoplasty could be defined as the method whose goal is to increase the dimensions of the nasal pyramid, both the dorsum and the tip. For a long time, surgeons have used different kinds of materials that have often been the object of discussion. The aim of this study is to report our experience with augmentation septorhinoplasty, emphasising the type and nature of the grafts employed and the ensuing complications.

[Revision of carcinomas in paranasal sinuses].

The annual incidence rate for paranasal sinus cancer is quite low in Europe at approximately 1 case a year per 100 000 inhabitants. The most frequent site is the maxillary sinus; in some countries such as Spain, however, carcinomas of the ethmoidal sinus complex are more prevalent. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most frequent histological type and adenocarcinoma is the one with the best prognosis.

[Resection with end-to-end anastomosis for postintubation tracheal stenosis].

Objective: To study results of resection and end-to-end anastomosis in tracheal stenosis (TS).

Patients And Method: Retrospective review of 14 patients with previous long-term intubation and residual tracheal stenosis, all operated on with resection and end-to-end anastomosis. We studied the percentage of surgical success, decannulation index, use of Montgomery T tube, and complications.