Unilateral blindness: a unique complication of choanal atresia surgery.

Objective: To report a unique case of unilateral blindness secondary to transnasal endoscopic surgery and stenting for right choanal atresia.

Case Report: A 24-year-old man was referred with right eye blindness and acute headache, occurring immediately after transnasal endoscopic surgical repair of unilateral right choanal atresia with placement of an endonasal stent. Maxillo-facial computed tomography with three-dimensional reconstruction showed the endonasal stent entering the right nostril, passing through the lamina papyracea into the orbit and running anterior to the optic foramen towards the superior orbital fissure.

Picibanil (OK-432) in the treatment of head and neck lymphangiomas in children.

Background: Picibanil (OK-432) is a lyophilized mixture of group A Streptococcus pyogenes with antineoplastic activity. Because of its capacity to produce a selective fibrosis of lymphangiomas (LMs), it has been approved by Japanese administration in 1995 for the treatment of LMs.

Materials And Methods: We treated 15 children (age range: 6-60 months) affected by head and neck macrocystic LMs with intracystic injections (single dose of 0.

A retrospective study on a series of 556 zimmer dental implants.

Background: One-stage surgery with immediate loading is possible, with good clinical results. Many types of dental implants are available in the market. Zimmer Dental Implants (ZDIs) have been used since the nineties, but few reports have analyzed the clinical outcome of these fixtures.

Craniofacial growth in children with nasal septum deviation: a cephalometric comparative study.

Objective: Nasal-breathing impairment has been described as a possible determinant of maxillofacial development in children with adenoids/tonsils hypertrophy. However little is known about the possible influence of nasal septum deviation on craniofacial growth in childhood. We conducted a multicenter cephalometric study to compare skeletal and dental features in children with chronic nasal-breathing obstruction secondary to nasal septum deviation and nose-breathing controls.