The effects on cardiac functions and arterial blood gases of totally occluding nasal packs and nasal packs with airway.

Objective: To evaluate the effects on cardiac functions and blood arterial gases of totally occluding nasal packs and nasal packs with airway.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized trial.

Methods: Thirty-nine adults without any comorbidities underwent septoplasty or septorhinoplasty and had nasal packs placed postoperatively; 19 nasal packs with airways and 20 totally occluding nasal packs.

Bilateral external auditory canal squamous cell carcinoma: a case report.

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the external auditory canal (EAC) is an extremely rare malignant tumor with a prevalance between 1 and 6 cases per 1 million population. The incidence is higher in patients presenting with otological diseases (1 in 5,000 to 15,000). Certain associating factors have been described in the literature.