A Retrospective Analysis of Multiple Affected Salivary Gland Diseases: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Benefits of Interventional Sialendoscopy.

Objectives: Multiple affected salivary gland diseases are rare compared to single gland diseases and represent a major diagnostic challenge. These cases are commonly neglected in the scientific literature, despite the considerable suffering of these patients. The aim of this retrospective study was to report disease characteristics, diagnostic pathways, and therapeutic options, including sialendoscopic treatment of multiple affected salivary gland disorders.

Evaluation of Cheek Edema in an Infant Reveals Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.

Background: Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a rare hematological disorder. Skin rash is the typical early feature, and bony involvement is the second most common presentation.

Methods: We present a case of a 5-month-old female infant with left hemifacial swelling, initially treated for infection with antibiotics.

Petrous bone cholesteatoma removal with hearing preservation.

Objective: Clinical and radiologic outcome analysis after petrous bone cholesteatoma (PBC) removal with simultaneous functional reconstruction.

Study Design: Retrospective case review over an observation period of 16 years (1992-2007).

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Lemierre syndrome in a 5-month-old male infant: Case report and review of the pediatric literature.

Objectives: To report, to the best of our knowledge, the youngest patient with Lemierre syndrome.

Design: Descriptive case report with review of the pediatric literature.

Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary referral hospital.

Cholesterol granuloma of the petrous apex: benefit of computer-aided surgery.

The following is an analysis of the role of computer aided surgery by infralabyrinthine-subcochlear approach to the petrous apex for cholesterol granulomas with hearing preservation. In a retrospective case review from 1996 to 2008 six patients were analysed in our tertiary referral centre, otorhinolaryngology outpatient clinic. Excellent intraoperative localisation of the carotid artery, facial nerve and the entrance into the cholesterol cyst of the bone by means of the navigation system was seen.