Pollybeak deformity in rhinoplasty: prevention and treatment.

Objective: Patients with pollybeak deformity who underwent rhinoplasty were analyzed retrospectively and across centers to identify their primary risk factors, preventative measures, and treatment modalities.

Patients And Methods: The retrospective data of 100 pollybeak deformity cases (61 males and 39 females) were enrolled in our study. The causes leading to pollybeak deformity were evaluated and classified as (1) Over-resected bony dorsum, (2) Excessive supra tip scarring, and (3) Inefficient tip support causing an under-projected tip.

Investigation of ambient-pressure absorbance characteristics of cartilage-grafted tympanic membranes.

Objective: To investigate alterations in middle-ear mechanics after type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty by comparing the ambient pressure absorbance values of the perforated tympanic membrane, normal tympanic membrane and cartilage-grafted tympanic membrane.

Methods: Twenty patients diagnosed with non-suppurative chronic otitis media and 20 healthy controls were included. Pure tone audiometry and wideband tympanometry were performed once in the healthy controls and pre-operatively, one month and three months post-operatively in the patients.

The role of allergic and nonallergic rhinitis on success of type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty.

Objective: To investigate the role of allergic rhinitis (AR) and non-allergic rhinitis (NAR) on success of type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted on 60 patients who had type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty. The patients were divided into three groups as no-rhinitis (n = 28), NAR (n = 18) and AR (n = 14) groups, based on their symptoms, skin prick tests and/or serum specific IgE levels.

Evaluation of the effects of Covid-19 on cochleovestibular system with audiovestibular tests.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on audiovestibular system with Transiently Evoked Distortion Otoacoustic Emissions (TOAE), Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions (DPOAE), video head impulse test (vHIT) and caloric test.

Methods: Audiovestibular findings of 24 patients with moderate/severe COVID-19 and 24 healthy controls were compared using pure tone audiometry, tympanometry, TOAE, DPOAE, caloric test, and vHIT.

Results: On audiometry, the pure tone averages of the COVID-19 patients were higher than the controls ( = .

The evaluation of the use of isotretinoin on vestibular system by using vHIT.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of isotretinoin (ISO) on peripheral vestibular system using vHIT.

Material And Method: This is a prospective study in which 30 patients administered ISO treatment with the diagnosis of acne vulgaris was evaluated. Following ear nose and throat, examination, audiological and vestibular evaluations were carried out.

Effects of a sequential cochlear implant of minimum comfort, impedance and electrically evoked compound action potential values of the initial cochlear implant.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of sequential second CI on the electrophysiological parameters of the initial CI.

Methods: Totally, 30 children who received sequential CIs between January and July 2018 were included in the study. All patients received the same brand of CI (Advanced Bionics, HIRES 90K Advantage 1J).

Insufficiency of positive airway pressure treatment on increased mean platelet volume: a prospective controlled study in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

Background: To analyze the association between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and some hematological variables such as mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW), and the impact of positive airway pressure (PAP) treatment on these parameters.

Methods: The participants of the present prospective study consist of 36 OSAS patients diagnosed with polysomnography and recommended PAP treatment and 30 healthy members as the control group. Complete blood analyses were conducted to the patient group twice; before the initiation of the PAP treatment and 1 month after regular PAP use.

Investigation of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and mean platelet volume in patients with tinnitus.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate patients with tinnitus in terms of mean platelet volume and platelet distribution width, and to explore neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, recently reported in the literature as being possible inflammation markers.

Methods: This study comprised 64 tinnitus patients and 64 age-matched healthy controls. Statistical significance level was accepted as p < 0.

Is resveratrol therapeutic when used to treat allergic rhinitisinitis in rats?

Purpose: Resveratrol has anti-infective, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of resveratrol in a rat experimental model of allergic rhinitis (AR).

Methods: Wistar albino rats were divided into three groups: control (n=7), AR with no treatment (AR+NoTr, n=7) and AR with resveratrol treatment (AR+Res, n=7).

Conchal compression: is it a new syndrome?

Objectives/hypothesis: To describe the diagnostic criteria and treatments of concha compression syndrome (CCS).

Patients And Methods: Patients who reported at least 3 times rhinosinusitis attacks per year were considered in this study. All patients met the diagnosis criteria of rhinosinusitis based on clinical history, showed a nasal septal spur compressing concha on their endoscopic examination and had no findings of rhinosinusitis on their paranasal sinus CT scans but showed concha ondularis.

[Submucosal lingual schwannoma].

Schwannoma or neurilemmoma is a slow growing, solitary, and encapsulated benign tumor originating from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerves. Lingual schwannomas are rare. A 46-year-old male patient admitted with a complaint of swelling on the right half of the tongue for one year.

Mastoid antral ventilation tube; new treatment modality for reccurent otitis media with effusion and its long term results.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficiency of mastoid antral ventilation tube (MAVT) treatment in recurrent/chronic otitis media with effusion (OME).

Methods: 20 OME patients who were unsuccessfully treated with ventilation tube (VT) at least twice, who consented to MAVT and who were followed up at least three years were included in the study group. Control group comprised 10 patients who had the same characteristics and refused to undergo MAVT and underwent VT placement again.

Lingual Thyroid Excision with Transoral Robotic Surgery.

Ectopic thyroid gland may be detected at any place between foramen caecaum and normal thyroid localization due to inadequacy of the embryological migration of the thyroid gland. It has a prevalence varying between 1/10.000 and 1/100000 in the community.

Preparation and placement of cartilage island graft in tympanoplasty.

Introduction: Cartilage graft tympanoplasty has a better success rate in the treatment of chronic otitis media if regularly prepared and placed.

Objective: To prepare cartilage island material and evaluate its effect on the success rate of tympanoplasty.

Methods: The medical records of 87 patients (48 males and 39 females; mean age, 27.

Langerhans cell histiocytosis in bilateral mastoid cavity.

A 39-year-old male was admitted to our clinic with symptoms of headache, dizziness, nausea, otalgia, otorrhea, tinnitus, and hearing loss in both ears for 3 weeks. Physical examination revealed edema in the tympanic membrane and external ear canal, and pain by palpation in the mastoid area bilaterally. There was no nystagmus, and the rest of the physical examination was otherwise normal.

Temporal bone fractures: evaluation of 77 patients and a management algorithm.

Background: We aimed to evaluate the etiologies, otolaryngological features, radiological findings, management strategies, and outcomes of temporal bone fractures.

Methods: Seventy-seven temporal bone fracture cases were retrospectively evaluated for age and gender distribution, side of the fracture, etiology of injuries, the presence of blood otorrhea, tympanic membrane perforation, cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea, hearing loss, hemotympanum, and facial or other cranial nerve palsies, and computerized tomography reports.

Results: Nearly 55% of the cases were caused by traffic accidents and were predominantly male (76.

Treatment of Pott's Puffy tumor with balloon sinuplasty: report of three cases.

Pott's Puffy tumor (PPT) is a rare entity characterized by subperiosteal abscess associated with osteomyelitis of the frontal bone. It is usually managed by surgical curettage of the osteomyelitic bone and long-term antibiotic therapy. Balloon catheter dilatation is a new technique which was recently introduced for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis.

Papillary thyroid carcinoma with metastasis to the temporooccipital skull: a case report.

The patient was admitted to our clinic with the complaint of swelling in his left post-auricular region. The medical history revealed that he underwent thyroid surgery eight years ago and the specimen was reported as papillary thyroid carcinoma. Following required analyses, total thyroidectomy and biopsy from mastoid region were performed.

Tympanoplasty with island cartilage or temporalis fascia: a comparative study.

Purpose: To compare clinical and audiological outcomes of the type 1 tympanoplasties where conchal cartilage (island graft) and temporalis fascia were used as the graft material.

Procedures: In this retrospective study, the results of type 1 tympanoplasty operations (n = 50) in which cartilage and temporalis fascia were used for graft material were compared.

Results: Pre- and postoperative otoscopic findings of both groups were similar (p > 0.

Shall we resect the tip of manubrium mallei in tympanoplasty?

Objectives: In tympanoplasty operations if perforation is related with malleus handle, malleus handle is desepithelised. We planned this research to investigate whether the epithelial remnants remain as a result of this desepithelisation or not.

Methods: The 35 patients who were performed tympanoplasty operation were divided into two groups.

The effects of uncinectomy and natural ostial dilatation on maxillary sinus ventilation: a clinical experimental study.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of uncinectomy without sinusotomy and natural ostial dilatation on maxillary sinus ventilation in chronic rhinosinusitis. Twenty patients with chronic rhinosinusitis were included in this study. The patients were randomly divided into two groups.

Endoscopic balloon dilation sinuplasty including ethmoidal air cells in chronic rhinosinusitis.

Objectives: We present the results of our experience with balloon catheter sinusotomy (BCS) in patients who had chronic rhinosinusitis.

Methods: The medical records of 30 patients who were treated for chronic sinusitis with the BCS technique between April 2007 and February 2008 were reviewed retrospectively. Preoperative and postoperative assessments were performed by endoscopic endonasal examination and Lund-Mackay radiologic staging of paranasal sinus computed tomography scans.

Middle turbinate osteoma extending into anterior cranial fossa.

Middle turbinate osteoma is very rare and only two times have been reported before. We reported a 31-year old male presenting middle turbinate osteoma that extending into the anterior cranial fossa, causing pneumocephalus. The osteoma was resected by combining endoscopic sinus surgery with bifrontal craniotomy and the patient was relieved of headaches.

The treatment of tongue haemangioma by plasma knife surgery.

A seven-year-old girl presented with a 4 cm x 2 cm lesion of the tongue which was located at the posterior one-third in the midline. The lesion was excised by plasma knife surgery. No complication, such as bleeding, shortness of breath or infection, occurred after the treatment.