Publications by authors named "Arturo M Poletti"
Parathyroid adenoma is a common endocrine disorder, but its intrathyroid presentation is relatively rare. The traditional approach, such as thyroid blind lobectomy, is the most frequent modality of treatment due to the possible unclear localization of the adenoma in the preoperative workup. This increases the risk of unnecessary probability of hypothyroidism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Endoscopy has become routinely used in middle ear surgery. The aim of this study is to analyze where this tool may complement the traditional microscopic approach. This is a retrospective study done in single tertiary hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze the effectiveness of the multiplanar analysis of the retromandibular vein in establishing the position of the parotid gland tumor and its relationship with the facial nerve, together with the most common radiological criteria (facial nerve line, Utrecht line, retromandibular vein and parapharyngeal space variations) using the magnetic resonance imaging.
Study Design: Retrospective study SETTING: Tertiary Academic Hospital SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 128 preoperative magnetic resonances were analyzed to study preoperative tumor location (medial or lateral to the expected course of the facial nerve) based on comparison between the radiological criteria and the surgical findings.
Results: FN line had the lowest accuracy at 77%, whereas the retromandibular vein achieved 85% accuracy and the UT line achieved accuracy of 93%.
We conducted a retrospective study to analyze the role of the cervical and lateral skull base approaches in the surgical excision of parapharyngeal space (PPS) tumors. Our study population was made up of 34 patients-15 males and 19 females, aged 13 to 73 years (mean: 50.6)-who had presented to us with a PPS tumor during a 9-year period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To define a better treatment of sporadic endolymphatic sac tumours (ELST) analysing our experience and literature available data.
Background: ELST can arise as sporadic case (rare) or as a part of von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. It is a low grade malignancy with local spread by continuity.
Introduction: We reviewed our experience of the multidisciplinary collaboration between ophthalmologists, head and neck surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiologists and oncologists in the management of extensive tumors treated by orbital exenteration at the Humanitas Research Institute, Milan, Italy, over the past 10 years.
Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study of all patients who underwent orbital exenteration between March 2005 and August 2014 at the Humanitas Research Institute. The 10-year cohort of exenterated patients was identified through operating room notes using the clinical code set of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10).
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and the safety of diode laser stapedotomy, through the functional results analysis.
Materials And Methods: A total of 179 primary cases of otosclerosis that had been operated on with a diode laser technique from 2004 to 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative, 1 month postoperative, and late annual follow-up audiograms (up to 8 years) were obtained in all the cases.
Background: Sporadic endolymphatic sac tumor (ELST) is rare. We described the clinical, radiological, and histological features, treatment, and follow-up of ELST.
Method: This was a retrospective analysis of 7 cases of sporadic ELST that were managed between 1993 and 2010.
Objective: Sporadic acoustic neuroma, usually occur between the ages of 40 and 70 years, are very rare in children. We review the experiences of 10 cases of sporadic (non-NF2) acoustic neuromas in pediatric patients.
Method: During last 26 years 2000 skull base procedures were performed in the Otorhinolaryngology Unit of the Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo.