Otolaryngology Service Usage in Children With Cleft Palate.

Objectives: To determine the usage of otolaryngology services by children with cleft palate at a pediatric tertiary care facility.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Setting: Specialty clinic at a pediatric tertiary care hospital.

Perioperative Hearing Evaluations for Patients Undergoing Tympanostomy Tube Placement.

Importance: Obtaining hearing thresholds is an important step in the evaluation of a child with otitis media because decreased hearing in the presence of a chronic middle ear effusion factors into the decision to place tympanostomy tubes (TTs).

Objective: To provide evidence regarding appropriate use of perioperative hearing evaluations in conjunction with TTs.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Case series with medical record review of all patients aged 0 to 24 years who received TTs at a tertiary pediatric care facility from June 1, 2010, through June 1, 2011.

Vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing for the diagnosis of conductive hearing loss: survey of pediatric otolaryngologists' knowledge and beliefs.

Objectives: To assess physicians' knowledge and beliefs regarding vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) testing in children.

Methods: A survey was delivered via email in html format to 1069 members of the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery who identified as pediatric otolaryngologists. Study data were collected and managed using the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) tools.

Crural attachment to promontory case report: implications for stapes development.

Understanding of the embryologic origin of the stapes remains controversial. Theories diverge upon whether the entirety of the stapes arises from a single source versus the footplate and suprastructure arising from distinct sources. A 12-year-old boy with left-sided conductive hearing loss had computed tomography of the temporal bone, revealing an inferiorly displaced left stapes, and a nonspecific density in the left Prussak's space.

Persistent conductive or mixed hearing loss after the placement of tympanostomy tubes.

Objective: Described is a case series of clinical findings in children with persistent conductive or mixed hearing loss following tympanostomy tube placement for serous otitis media.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: Tertiary pediatric hospital.