Preparation and placement of cartilage island graft in tympanoplasty.

Introduction: Cartilage graft tympanoplasty has a better success rate in the treatment of chronic otitis media if regularly prepared and placed.

Objective: To prepare cartilage island material and evaluate its effect on the success rate of tympanoplasty.

Methods: The medical records of 87 patients (48 males and 39 females; mean age, 27.

[Treatment of olfactory neuroblastoma via subfrontal and midfacial degloving approaches: a case report].

A 12-year-old girl presented with complaints of nasal obstruction and a right infraorbital swelling. A biopsy obtained from the right nasal passage revealed olfactory neuroblastoma. The tumor was completely excised via subfrontal craniofacial and midfacial degloving approaches.

Treatment of mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid gland and successful repair of iatrogenic facial nerve paralysis.

A 15-year-old female patient developed facial nerve paralysis following surgical excision of a right parotid mass at another center. The histopathologic diagnosis of the lesion was mucoepidermoid carcinoma. On admission to our clinic, she underwent extended total parotidectomy and functional neck dissection.