Sialendoscopic Pneumatic Lithotripsy for Salivary Calculi: A New Technique and a Long-term Clinical Experience.

We report our results comprising a series of 34 cases of sialolithiasis that were approached sialendoscopically with conventional instruments (ie, basket and/or forceps) and for which stone removal was unsuccessful and so were thereafter treated with pneumatic lithotripsy. Intraductal pneumatic lithotripsy was able to fragment 30 of 34 (88%) salivary calculi in total. No major complications occurred.

Sialendoscopy: experience with the first 60 glands in Turkey and a literature review.

Objectives: We performed a retrospective analysis to contribute to the increasing number of reports on sialendoscopy in the literature and give basic concepts for beginners at the same time.

Methods: Between 2004 and 2009, 83 patients with symptoms of ductal obstruction of the major salivary glands were admitted to our clinic. Diagnostic and/or interventional sialendoscopy was applied to 60 glands (33 submandibular and 27 parotid) of 54 patients.

Transnasal endoscopic approach for anterior skull base angiomatosis complicated by a meningocele.

A 42-year-old woman presented with symptoms of left-sided nasal obstruction, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea, and frequent sinus infections. Radiologic investigation revealed a tumor destructing the left cribriform plate and forming opacifications in the olfactory area. She had left-sided submucosal meningocele, deviating the septum to the right side.