Objective: To determine the epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of sinus mucoceles in Ivory Coast.
Materials And Methods: A multicenter study conducted in the three services ENT (ear, nose & throat) hospital and university centers and clinics in Abidjan from 1996 to 2012 (16 years). It involved patients who have been diagnosed clinically and radiologically with a sinus mucocele who benefited from surgical treatment.
Objective: To present our experience of the diagnostic and surgical care of sino-nasal inverted papilloma.
Material And Method: Retrospective study over 14 years (1996-2010) realised in the ENT departments in Côte d'Ivoire. Thirteen inverted papilloma confirmed and operated, after computed tomography, were included (7 men and 6 women, from 8 to 55 years old).
Foreign bodies are a frequent reason for ENT consultation especially in children. Although the nature of the foreign body can be variable, the discovery of a tooth in a nasal cavity is a rare occurrence. The authors report a case of foreign body inside the nasal cavity caused by tooth migration and discuss its pathologic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Nasal NK/T cell lymphoma is an aggressive, locally destructive and necrotizing lesions. It is exceptional rare in Africa.
Case Report: We report a 73 year-old patient's case presenting a nasal obstruction with a chronic purulent nasal discharge.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
December 2010
It is not unusual for a foreign body to be swallowed and be lodged in the esophagus. It is however, very unusual for such a foreign body to remain lodged for a period of 8 months. This particular case, a 15-month-old male infant, is under focus because of the time length the foreign body remained in the esophagus without local complications, what is unusual is a protein energy malnutrition complication.
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