Postural control and risk of falling in bipodalic and monopodalic stabilometric tests of healthy subjects before, after visuo-proprioceptive vestibulo-postural rehabilitation and at 3 months thereafter: role of the proprioceptive system.

Nine healthy volunteers (6 males, 3 females), mean age 34.5 years (SD = 11.52), underwent a vestibulo-postural rehabilitation cycle with a visuo-proprioceptive-type stimulus.

[Primary tuberculosis of the middle ear: description of 2 cases and review of the literature].

Recently, a recrudescence of tuberculosis (TBC) as been found, even in Western world and in Italy, most likely in relation to the increase in immigration from developing countries and to the pathologies that cause immunodepression. The present paper reports two cases of primitive TBC of the middle ear, both coming under observation for facial paralysis. These cases highlight the clinical-therapeutic features of this disease, the difficulty in diagnosis and the need to include TBC in the differential diagnosis of phlogistic processes of the middle ear.

[Mastoid osteomas: review of literature and presentation of 2 clinical cases].

The authors report two cases of mastoid osteoma in patients at the "S. Filippo Neri" Hospital in Rome, Italy. The literature on this topic is critically reviewed.

[Mucocele of sphenoid sinus: presentation of 3 cases].

Sphenoidal mucoceles are equally distributed between males and females occur rarely and have an incidence of 1%. Their low incidence is certainly to be ascribed to their deep position with respect to the superior respiratory tract as well as to the characteristics of the mucosa coating of the sinus (where the scarce muciparous component does not cause drainage problems). During endocranial manifestation, it is important to make a differential diagnosis between tumors at the base of the skull and adenomas of the hypophysis.

[Rare manifestation of nasal polyposis in the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome].

We are relating a case of the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, a disease characterized by hamartomatous polyposis and by mucocutaneous melanic pigmentation, in a rare variant identified by the presence of nasal polyposis. At the objective E.N.

[Cholesteatoma of the Prussak's space. Diagnosis with computerized tomography].

Prussak's space localization represents the early stage of the cholesteatoma arising from the pars flaccida of the tympanic membrane. From Prussak's space the mass spreads to the antrum and to mastoid air cells. Its demonstration is infrequent probably due to the limited use of CT in inflammatory diseases of the middle ear.