The role of parotid biopsy in the diagnosis of pediatric Sjögren syndrome.

Objectives: To describe our experience with primary and secondary Sjögren syndrome (SS) in the pediatric population and to evaluate the effectiveness of parotid gland biopsy in the diagnosis of pediatric SS.

Design: Case series review of 6 pediatric patients evaluated during a 4-year period with varied head and neck manifestations of SS.

Setting: Tertiary care children's hospital.

Endoscopic resection of a nasal septal chondrosarcoma: first report of a case.

Advances in endoscopic sinus surgery technique and technology have provided the otolaryngologist with a wide array of surgical options for the management of nasal and paranasal sinus diseases that were once limited to procedures requiring invasive surgery. We describe the case of a patient with a chondrosarcoma of the posterior nasal septum that was resected endoscopically. There have been fewer than 30 reports in the English-language literature of chondrosarcomas arising at this location, and the reported approaches to surgical excision in these case involved craniofacial procedures, facial degloving, facial splitting, and maxillectomy techniques.