Facial Nerve in Parotid Surgery- do Landmarks Differ With Varying Statures?

To measure the distance of facial nerve from tragal pointer, tympanic plate and digastric muscle, also length of the facial nerve trunk and to establish any variation according to different patient stature. Intraoperative measurements were taken using Castroviejo Callipers (20 mm). Height and weight of each was taken and tabulated.

Dysphagia in post Covid-19 Patients- a Prospective Cohort Study.

Never in recent history has mankind been so severely and diversely affected by any disease like the COVID-19 infection. Many post-COVID complications have been mentioned in the literature and other platforms, of which post-COVID Dysphagia is a very distressing complaint. The severity of dysphagia may range from mild discomfort in swallowing to life-threatening aspiration.

Optimizing Airway Surgery in COVID 19 Era.

Otorhinolaryngologists, particularly dealing with airway cases, are subjected to highest risk of COVID 19 aerosolisation, self infection and transmission. Moreover, airway cases, which mostly present as emergency, cannot be deferred. Being a tertiary airway centre and having received a number of airway cases, most of them requiring prompt surgical intervention, our airway surgery and anaesthesiology team had to work in conjunction to adapt and readapt the practice over the past few months, striving to achieve effective airway surgery protocols, to minimize exposure and prevent transmission of COVID 19.

A Comparative Study of Radiograph and Nasal Endoscopy in Diagnosis of Hypertrophied Adenoids.

Adenoid hypertrophy is a common presentation in the growing age group. It results in varied symptomatology resulting in nasal obstruction, mouth breathing, snoring, nasal discharge and nasal intonation of voice. Diagnostic nasal endoscopy and plain radiograph are the two most widely done investigative procedures.

Neuroendocrine Tumour of the Middle Ear: A Case Report.

Neuroendocrine tumour of the middle ear is a rare entity. Here we present a case of a 50 year old male who presented with a polyp in the left external auditory canal. Surgical excision followed by immunohistochemistry confirmed it to be a neuroendocrine tumour.

Primary tuberculosis of upper airway: case report of 3 rare presentation.

Tuberculosis of the upper airway is usually seen in conjunction with primary pulmonary tuberculosis. Primary tuberculosis of this area without involvement of the lung is very rare and often mistaken for malignancies. We report here three patients (2 male & 1 female) who presented with different symptoms and on investigations revealed to be suffering from tuberculosis of the upper airway (nasopharynx, tonsil & epiglottis).