Aspirin desensitization following endoscopic sinus surgery is effective in patients with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease.

Introduction: Aspirin desensitization (AD) is effective in relieving asthma and sinonasal outcomes in patients with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD). So far, only a limited number of studies evaluated the effect of AD prospectively in a controlled manner in N-ERD. It is also a current approach to recommend endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) before AD.

Preference and Perception of Enhanced Images During Endonasal Endoscopic Surgery.

Image enhancement is used widely in endoscopic sinonasal surgery. It is yet to be established whether image enhancement has advantages over white-light endoscopy. The authors aimed to evaluate the preferences and subjective visual perception of image enhancement in diagnostic images acquired at the beginning of endonasal endoscopic surgeries.

Behçet disease as a cause of hearing loss: A prospective, placebo-controlled study of 29 patients.

We conducted a prospective, placebo-controlled study to determine the incidence and severity of inner ear involvement and hearing loss in patients with Behçet disease. Our study population was made up of 29 patients with Behçet disease and 28 healthy controls. Audiometric pure-tone thresholds and transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE) levels were determined in both groups.

Epidemiology of vitiligo, associated autoimmune diseases and audiological abnormalities: Ankara study of 80 patients in Turkey.

Background: Recent clinical studies suggest that the pathogenetic mechanisms of vitiligo could be of systemic origin as vitiligo is associated with auditory abnormalities as well as other autoimmune disorders.

Objectives: To investigate clinical, genetic characteristics and laboratory findings of vitiligo as well as auditory abnormalities and the association of the disease with the other autoimmune disorders.

Materials And Methods: From January to December 2008, we collected-data from 80 vitiligo patients to establish the clinical and epidemiological profile of vitiligo in Turkey.

Three-dimensional computed tomography and surgical treatment for Eagle's syndrome.

Eagle's syndrome represents a group of symptoms that includes recurrent throat pain, globus pharyngeus, dysphagia, referred otalgia, and neck pain possibly caused by elongation of the styloid process or ossification of the stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligaments. The medical history and physical and radiologic examinations are the main guides to the precise diagnosis. The radiologic diagnostic modality of choice is three-dimensional computed tomography (3-D CT).

Airway inflammation in nasal polyposis: immunopathological aspects of relation to asthma.

Background: Nasal polyposis (NP) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the upper respiratory tract, which is often coexist with asthma. However, the pathogenesis of especially in patients with NP is still a matter of debate.

Objective: To better understand the immunopathologic mechanism involved in this relationship, we investigated the inflammatory cell profiles in bronchial and nasal tissues of patients with NP alone and with concomitant asthma.

Extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma of the head and neck in women.

Extranasopharengeal angiofibroma of the head and neck in women is very rare, and clinical characteristics do not confirm to that of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. We present clinical characteristics, etiology, preoperative evaluation, and management of 3 unusual cases of angiofibroma, 1 case originating from larynx and the other 2 cases from nasal septum in women. Endolaryngeal endoscopic excision for laryngeal and local excision for septal angiofibromas were performed.

Results of endoscopic endonasal non-laser dacryocystorhinostomy.

Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (EN-DCR) is a procedure that presents itself as an alternative choice to the conventional external approach. This study describes the results of endoscopic endonasal non-laser lacrimal surgery. We reported the data of 64 procedures of 63 patients with epiphora or chronic dacryocystitis who underwent primary EN-DCR by means of a microdrill or revision EN-DCR.

Adjunctive use of mitomycin C on endoscopic lacrimal surgery.

Aims: Endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) has some advantages over external DCR as a less invasive method with no skin incisions. But the success rate of the operation has not reached the level of external method. In this study, a wound healing inhibitor mitomycin C was used intraoperatively to prevent the closure of the osteum after the operation.

Histopathologic effects of mitomycin-C on endoscopic transnasal dacryocystorhinostomy.

Background And Objectives: The antimetabolite mitomycin-C is now being used in endoscopic transnasal dacryocystorhinostomies to prevent the closure of osteotomies.

Patients And Methods: A 0.5-mg/ml solution of mitomycin-C was applied to the osteotomy site for 2 1/2 minutes intraoperatively.

Histological study of atelocollagen infused into the human vocal cords.

There have been only three case reports of histological study on injection of atelocollagen into the human vocal cords, and none of these have indicated foreign body reaction. We histologically examined the larynx of a 70-year-old man, which had to be excised 44 days after infusion of atelocollagen into the vocal cords. The atelocollagen infused was found to have been replaced with the collagen of host cells, but no foreign body reaction was observed.