Sensorineural hearing loss in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Objectives: Sensorineural hearing loss as an extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies, including adult patients. The aim of this study is to determine the presence of subclinical sensorineural hearing loss associated with inflammatory bowel disease in pediatric patients.

Methods: Otoscopy, tympanometry, and pure tone audiometry were performed in 24 patients with disease and 20 healthy age- and sex-matched controls.

Laryngeal actinomycosis accompanying laryngeal carcinoma: Report of two cases.

Actinomycosis is a systemic chronic bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces israelii, an anaerobic organism normally resident in the human mouth. It can involve any organ, but cervicofacial disease is the most common. Laryngeal involvement is rare and usually occurs secondary to the oral, cervical or mandibular disease.

Sensorineural hearing loss in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a subclinical extraintestinal manifestation.

Isolated case reports in which symptomatic hearing loss develops suddenly during the course of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been reported, but the presence of subclinical sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) associated with IBD has been investigated in only two preliminary studies. In order to research this further, we aimed to investigate the presence of subclinical SNHL in IBD by comparison with a control group and to examine possible relations between the bowel disease parameters and hearing loss.Otoscopy, tympanometry, and pure tone audiometry were carried out in 39 patients with IBD (21 Crohn's disease [CD], 18 ulcerative colitis [UC]) and 25 healthy age- and sex-matched controls.

Management of otogenic lateral sinus thrombosis.

Purpose: Lateral sinus thrombosis (LST) is a rare but potentially devastating complication of otitis media. We review the clinical presentation, evaluation, management, operative findings, and outcomes of this serious complication.

Material And Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed at a teaching hospital of all patients diagnosed with an otogenic lateral sinus thrombosis between 1992 and 2002.