The effect of adenotonsillectomy on oxygen saturation in children with sleep disordered breathing.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of adenotonsillectomy on oxygen saturation measured through nocturnal pulse oximetry in children with sleep disordered breathing.

Methods: A pre- and post-intervention study was carried out using nocturnal pulse oximetry. The study involved 31 children who were suspected of having sleep disordered breathing and had been referred for adenotonsillectomy.

The effect of adenotonsillectomy on oxygen saturation in children with sleep breathing disorders.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of adenotonsillectomy on the oxygen saturation measures by nocturnal pulse oximetry in children with sleep breathing disorders (SBD).

Methods: A non-controlled clinical trial was performed. Thirty-one children with suspected SBD and a clinical indication for adenotonsillectomy were recruited.

[Otoscopy and tympanometry in the diagnosis of secretory otitis media].

OBJECTIVE: To study the sensitivity and specificity of otoscopy and tympanometry in the diagnosis of secretory otitis media. METHODS: A prospective study was performed in 98 children (196 ears) with indication of myringotomy with placement of tympanostomy tube because of the diagnosis of secretory otitis media. All these patients had conductive hearing loss and/or delay of speech and/or low school performance.

Evaluation of time of nasal packing after nasal surgery: a randomized trial.

A randomized, prospective trial was carried out to compare the rate of hemorrhagic complications after removal of nasal packing left for 24 and 48 hours. A total of 104 patients underwent nasal surgery and were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups: group 1, 24 hours of nasal packing; group 2, 48 hours of nasal packing. No statistical difference was observed between the groups in terms of occurrence of hemorrhagic complications.

Laryngeal manifestations of paracoccidioidomycosis (South American blastomycosis).

Objective: To report clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and epidemiologic characteristics of laryngeal paracoccidioidomycosis.

Design: Case series.

Settings: Tertiary care institutional hospital.

Lateral sinus thrombosis and cervical abscess complicating cholesteatoma in children: case report and review.

To call attention to complications of chronic otitis media, the case of a patient who simultaneously developed lateral sinus thrombosis and Bezold's abscess is reported. A 7 year old boy presented with fever, drowsiness, cervical mass and otorrhea not responding to medical management. Work-up revealed lateral sinus thrombosis and cervical abscess secondary to right ear cholesteatoma.

[Lateral sinus thrombophlebitis and cervical abscess as a complication of chronic otitis media].

Objective: To focus on two rare complications of cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media.

Methods: A case of two simultaneous complications of cholesteatoma (lateral sinus thrombophlebitis and Bezold's cervical abscess) in a 7 year-old boy is reported. Thereafter, a review of the international literature about both complications is carried out.