Head and neck dog bites in children.

Objectives: 1) Demonstrate patterns of dog bite injury to the head and neck in children. 2) Identify treatment outcomes of dog bite injuries to the head and neck.

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Cochlear implantation and meningitis.

Objective: Study clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of cochlear implant patients diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.

Background: Cochlear implantation in children is necessary for the optimal development of speech in the developing child diagnosed with profound sensorineural hearing loss. Approximately 60,000 devices have been inserted in adults and children worldwide to date.

A new technique (the NOW test) for the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the effusions of otitis media.

The presence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in chronic otitis media was determined with a new antigen detection kit, the NOW test. The NOW test was originally designed as a urinary antigen test but was adapted to middle-ear effusions for the present study. Middle-ear effusions from 52 children were studied.

Incidence of reflux in young children undergoing adenoidectomy.

Objective: To compare the incidence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in children under 2 years of age who have symptomatic adenoid hypertrophy requiring surgical removal or who have otitis media with effusion requiring ventilation tube insertion without adenoidectomy.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: An academic pediatric otolaryngology unit.

Complications in pediatric tracheostomies.

Objective: To examine complications of pediatric tracheostomy.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Methods: Chart review of children undergoing tracheotomy or laryngeal diversion between 1990 and 1999.