Endoscopic "Push-Trough" Technique Cartilage Myringoplasty in Anterior Tympanic Membrane Perforations.

Objectives: To evaluate endoscopic push-through technique cartilage myringoplasty results.

Methods: This prospective study was performed on patients with anterior tympanic membrane perforations and endoscopic push-through technique cartilage myringoplasty was performed between 2011 and 2013. The patients who did not have any cholesteatoma or otorrhea in the previous 3 months, and had an air bone gap ≤25 dB in their preoperative audiograms were included in the study.

[Importance of laryngologic examination in chronic cough].

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the distribution of etiologic factors related to otorhinolaryngology in chronic cough patients with normal lung examination and spirometric findings, and also highlight the importance of videolaryngostroboscopic (VLS) examination with these patients.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-six patients (31 males, 45 females; mean age 48.0±15.

Role of electrical stimulation added to conventional therapy in patients with idiopathic facial (Bell) palsy.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of electrical stimulation when added to conventional physical therapy with regard to clinical and neurophysiologic changes in patients with Bell palsy.

Design: This was a randomized controlled trial. Sixty patients diagnosed with Bell palsy (39 right sided, 21 left sided) were included in the study.

The effects of nasal base stabilization techniques on nasal tip rigidity.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the degree of nasal tip rigidity from different techniques for increasing nasal tip projection.

Methods: Retrospective records of patients who had undergone rhinoplasty were reviewed at the tertiary referral center. 81 patients who had undergone suturing of the medial crura to the extension graft or to the long septum were selected.

Comparison of incus interpositioning technique versus glass ionomer cement application in type 2 tympanoplasty.

Objective of this study is to compare glass ionomer cement application and incus interpositioning techniques in patients who have chronic otitis media, conductive hearing loss with intact tympanic membrane and who undergo hearing reconstruction of staged surgery using a retrospective chart review in the setting of Ministry of Health Ankara Training and Research Hospital ENT Clinic, Turkey. We retrospectively evaluated patients who underwent otological surgery and hearing reconstruction with auto graft incus during 2005-2008 or glass ionomer cement during 2008-2010. Patients who had cholesteatoma, stapes fixation and tympanosclerosis were excluded.

Combined intratympanic and systemic use of steroids for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: To compare hearing results in idiopathic sudden hearing loss patients treated with systemic steroids alone or combined intratympanic and steroids.

Study Design: Prospective.

Setting: Tertiary referral hospital.

Type 2 ossiculoplasty: prognostic determination of hearing results by middle ear risk index.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate the prognostic impact of middle ear risk index on the postoperative hearing results in cases with type 2 ossiculoplasty; to compare the middle ear risk index results among primary, staged, and revision cases; and to compare the results of the prostheses used in ossicular reconstruction.

Material And Methods: Records of 293 patients who had canal wall up tympanomasteidectomy and type 2 ossiculoplasty due to chronic otitis media between November 1995 and November 2007 were reviewed retrospectively.

Results: The mean preoperative air-bone gap was 32.

The functional and anatomical results of the canal wall down tympanoplasty in extensive cholesteatoma.

Conclusion: Although we have shown that malleus handle and mucosal factors were important prognostic factors for hearing, we were unable to show the positive effect of the stapes superstructure on hearing results. The positive effect of the presence of the stapes superstructure on hearing results is closely related to the quality of the mucosa.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of ossicular and mucosal factors on hearing in primary canal wall down (CWD) surgery with ossicular chain reconstruction (OCR) performed for extensive acquired cholesteatoma.

The impact of fixated glass ionomer cement and springy cortical bone incudostapedial joint reconstruction on hearing results.

Conclusions: Although it abolishes the incudostapedial joint, use of glass ionomer cement to repair the defect between the stapes head and the long process of the incus is a successful procedure when the hearing results are considered.

Objectives: To compare the hearing results obtained by a fixed, stiff reconstruction with glass ionomer cement, and a flexible, springy pseudo-joint built with autologous cortical bone in patients with a small defect between the long process of the incus and the stapes head.

Patients And Methods: A total of 66 patients who had canal wall up tympanomastoidectomy due to chronic otitis media and incus long process defect between January 1996 and February 2008 were analyzed retrospectively.

[Epidural abscess and encephalocele following tegmen defect due to mastoidectomy: a case report].

In chronic otitis media surgery, especially in cases with cholesteatoma, different complications can occur in the course of the operation or postoperatively. In our clinic, in one of the cases who had staged canal-wall down operation for otitis media with cholesteatoma, an iatrogenic 0.5x0.

First-choice treatment in mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea: single-stage, multilevel, temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction or nasal continuous positive airway pressure.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of single-stage, multilevel, temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction (TCRFTVR) for the soft palate and base of the tongue with that of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in primary treatment of mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea.

Design: A prospective nonrandomized clinical study.

Setting: Tertiary care referral center.

Determination of Helicobacter pylori in patients with chronic nonspecific pharyngitis.

Objectives/hypothesis: To determine if there is a relationship between Helicobacter pylori colonization in the pharynx mucous membrane and chronic nonspecific pharyngitis.

Study Design: A prospective clinical study.

Methods: Seventy patients with chronic pharyngitis and 20 healthy control subjects were examined with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and culture for H.

The preventive effect of ginkgo biloba extract in myringosclerosis: study in rats.

Objective: To determine the preventive effect of Ginkgo biloba extract in the formation of myringosclerosis.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized clinical study.

Materials And Methods: Posterosuperior quadrant of tympanic membranes of twenty-five Wistar Albino rats were bilaterally myringotomized.

Ossiculoplasty with intact stapes: analysis of hearing results according to the middle ear risk index.

Conclusions: In ossiculoplasty with intact stapes, using autologous incus, cortex bone chips and plastipore partial ossicular reconstruction prostheses, improvement in hearing was nearly equal. In patients who had mild risk scores, the incus had better gain values compared with patients who had severe scores.

Objective: We aimed to prove the utility of the middle ear risk index score and its predictive value in hearing outcome.

Ginkgo biloba, a free oxygen radical scavenger, affects inflammatory mediators to diminish the occurrence of experimental myringosclerosis.

Conclusion: Systemic Ginkgo biloba extract treatment reduces the levels of nitrite/nitrate, malondialdehyde, and superoxide dismutase and increases the levels of glutathione peroxidase. By scavenging free oxygen radicals, ginkgo extract prevents the formation of myringosclerosis.

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate inflammatory mediators to determine the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect of Ginkgo biloba extract to diminish myringosclerosis.

The effect of stapes mobility on hearing outcome and which procedure to choose in fixed stapes in children tympanosclerosis.

Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the features of tympanosclerosis in children and to determine the effect of stapes mobility and the type of one-stage operation on hearing outcomes.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-one children who were performed different types of single-stage otologic surgery for tympanosclerosis between January 1997 and December 2006 were retrospectively chart reviewed. The children were divided into two groups according to the mobility of ossicular chain, especially the stapes.

Comparison of radiofrequency tissue volume reduction and submucosal resection with microdebrider in inferior turbinate hypertrophy.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of submucosal temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction (TCRFTVR) and resection with microdebrider (SMRM) in chronic inferior turbinate hypertrophy.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, and single-blinded clinical trial.

Methods: The study group consisted of 30 symptomatic patients who underwent simultaneous TCRFTVR and SMRM for consecutive sides.

Intratympanic methylprednisolone for sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: Corticosteroids are commonly used for the treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). In this study, the effectiveness of intratympanic (IT) corticosteroid injection was studied and compared with a control group on patients with SSHL who failed systemic corticosteroid treatment.

Materials And Methods: A total of 19 patients as a retreatment group (RG) and 18 patients as a control group (CG), all failed high-dose intravenous and oral corticosteroid treatments, were included in this study.

Bilateral congenital choanal atresia in a 7-day-old patient: transnasal endoscopic repair with stent.

Congenital choanal atresia (CCA) is the developmental failure of the nasal cavity to communicate with nasopharynx. Surgical repair is recommended in the first weeks of life in bilateral cases because this is a life-threatening situation in newborns. This paper is a case report of a 7-day-old full term girl infant presenting the history of attacks of cyanosis and having difficulty in suckling and respiration.

Success is a matter of experience: type 1 tympanoplasty : influencing factors on type 1 tympanoplasty.

Our objective was to identify the factors that could influence the success rate of type 1 tympanoplasty in a tertiary care centre where both residents and senior surgeons perform this operation. Six hundred and seven patients who had been performed type 1 tympanoplasty as a primary otologic surgery between January 1997 and December 2004 were retrospectively chart reviewed. The patients had intact and mobile ossicular chain peroperatively.

Is septoplasty alone adequate for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with septal deviation?

Background: The purpose of this study was to reveal the role of septoplasty in curing chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) in patients with significant septal deviation.

Methods: This prospective study involved 26 patients with CRS and septal deviation. The patients were randomly divided into two groups according to the applied surgical procedures.

Infected inferior turbinate pneumatization.

With the widespread utilization of endoscopic nasal surgery, the interest in nasal structures has increased. Inferior turbinate pneumatization is among the most rare causes of nasal obstruction. In the current literature, there are only ten reported cases of inferior turbinate pneumatization.

Acoustic rhinometry in the objective evaluation of childhood septoplasties.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate results of septoplasty during childhood objectively with the help of acoustic rhinometry (AR).

Methods: Twenty-six children aged between 6 and 15 years who had septoplasty for nasal septal deviation during year 2002 were included in this study. Twenty-one patients who had no nasal septal deformities and nasal symptoms were included as control group.

Evaluation of sentinel nodes in the assessment of cervical metastases from head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.

Aims And Background: To delineate the lymphatic drainage in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) patients by lymphoscintigraphy and to investigate whether the results of histopathological evaluation of sentinel nodes have any diagnostic relevance with regard to the metastatic involvement of all cervical lymph nodes.

Methods: Forty-one patients clinically pre-diagnosed as having primary head and neck SCC underwent Tc-99m nanocolloid lymphoscintigraphy and were evaluated according to the Memorial Sloan Kettering cervical lymph nodes level system. Treatment of 24 of these patients included neck dissection in addition to surgery for the primary tumor.