Foreign body aspiration in a rare tracheal anomaly: A case report.

Introduction: Tracheal bronchus is a rare anomaly in which an accessory bronchial branch originates superior to the tracheal bifurcation. It is usually incidentally found in patients with recurrent chest infection, persistent stridor and less commonly due to foreign body aspiration.

Presentation Of Case: A 6-year-old medically and surgically free boy presented to the Emergency Department with severe shortness of breath.

Pneumatic video-otoscopy teaching improves the diagnostic accuracy of otitis media with effusion: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: the diagnostic accuracy of otitis media with effusion (OME) has been shown to be poor among medical students, residents, and practicing physicians.

Objective: to determine if the use of pneumatic video-otoendoscopic examination (VOE) improves the diagnostic accuracy of OME among residents.

Methods: pediatric residents were randomized into a "pneumatic" examination group (intervention) and a "still" examination group (control).

Linking laryngopharyngeal reflux to otitis media with effusion: pepsinogen study of adenoid tissue and middle ear fluid.

Hypothesis/objectives: Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) was recently implicated in the etiology of otitis media with effusion (OME). To study the hypothesis that gastric juice reaches the middle ear through the nasopharynx and eustachian tube, we evaluated the presence of pepsinogen in the adenoid tissues of children with otitis media with effusion (OME) and compared them with the tissues of a control group of children without OME.

Methods: In the study group, middle ear effusions (MEEs) and adenoidal tissue biopsies were obtained from patients undergoing simultaneous tympanostomy tube placement and adenoidectomy.