Isolated sphenoid inflammatory diseases associated with visual impairment: 15-year experience at a single institution.

We present a retrospective series of 11 patients treated for isolated sphenoid inflammatory disease (ISID) with visual impairment in the period between 1994 and 2008. The series included 7 females and 4 males. All patients, preoperatively assessed by CT or MR, underwent endoscopic sinus surgery and broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy.

Limitations and complications of endoscopic surgery for treatment for sinonasal inverted papilloma: a reassessment after 212 cases.

Background: The purpose of this study was to define the optimal surgical strategy for sinonasal inverted papilloma in relation to the site of origin and tumor extent.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients affected by inverted papilloma treated by purely endoscopic or combined approaches at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University of Brescia and Pavia-Varese from November 1991 to December 2007.

Results: Two hundred twelve patients were considered eligible for this study.

Nasopharyngeal endoscopic resection in the management of selected malignancies: ten-year experience.

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of endoscopic surgery in the management of selected nasopharyngeal cancers. Three different types of nasopharyngeal endoscopic resections (NER) are described.

Method Of Study: From January 1997 to October 2008, 17 consecutive patients (mean age: 50 years) with previously untreated (5) or recurrent nasopharyngeal tumours (12) were treated with curative intent by pure endoscopic resection.

Fungus ball of the paranasal sinuses: experience in 160 patients treated with endoscopic surgery.

Objectives/hypothesis: Herein we present our experience in the management of fungus ball (FB) of the paranasal sinuses. Preoperative imaging strategy and findings, surgical technique, and pathologic and microbiologic results are discussed.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review of patients with FB of the paranasal sinuses who underwent endoscopic surgery at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University of Brescia, Italy.

[Intranasal steroid therapy in inflammatory nasal-sinus pathology in pediatric age].

Nasal obstruction is the symptom par excellence signalling the onset of nasal-sinus inflammatory pathologies (allergic rhinitis, acute or intermittent rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps, persistent rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps, chronic or intermittent rhinosinusitis associated with nasal-sinus polyposis). This symptom is due, in particular, to the host's response to the etiological factor for which, where there is no accompanying infectious process, the therapy should be aimed at resolving the inflammatory response. The anti-inflammatory properties of steroid drugs have been used systemically with excellent results.