Effectiveness and Safety of Attic Exposition-Antrum Exclusion versus Canal Wall-Up in Patients with Acquired Stage Ib and II Cholesteatoma Affecting the Attic and Tympanic Cavity.

This study aims to test the effectiveness and safety of exteriorization surgery comprising atticotomy and obliteration of the additus ad antrum, also referred to as attic exposition-antrum exclusion (AE-AE) surgery. This surgery combines otoendoscopy with surgical microscopy for the treatment of acquired pars flaccida cholesteatoma in stages Ib and II (according to the classification of the Japan Otological Society) present in the attic and the tympanic cavity. We reviewed a historical cohort of 65 patients.

Quilting sutures compared with sponge packing in septolplasty and turbinoplasty.

Introduction: There is a lack of consensus regarding the need for nasal packing after a septoplasty. The use of nasal packing has been proposed to reduce bleeding, synechiae and haematomas. Despite these advantages evidence is scant to support postoperative packing.

Quilting sutures compared with sponge packing in septolplasty and turbinoplasty.

Introduction: There is a lack of consensus regarding the need for nasal packing after a septoplasty. The use of nasal packing has been proposed to reduce bleeding, synechiae and haematomas. Despite these advantages evidence is scant to support postoperative packing.

Facial canal dehiscence in patients with cholesteatoma: concordance between intraoperative inspection, computed tomography and neurophysiological findings.

Objectives: To assess the diagnostic capacity of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring with respect to "gold standard" microscopic findings of facial canal dehiscence in middle ear cholesteatoma surgery.

Study Design, Patients And Setting: We carried out a retrospective cohort study of 57 surgical interventions for cholesteatoma between 2008 and 2013 at Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Spain.

Diagnostic Interventions: Each patient underwent preoperative computed tomography (CT), intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and intraoperative inspection of the facial nerve during microsurgery.

[Extracranial meningiomas of the paranasal sinuses].

Extracraneal meningiomas are infrequent and their localization in the paranasal sinuses is rare. We present the case of a patient with a primary meningioma of the paranasal sinuses. We describe the surgical approach and review the current literature.