The Clinical Utility of Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials in Patients of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

Context: Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMP) is an emerging tool to diagnose Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). The clinical utility of VEMP has been reported only in small accord in Indian literature.

Aim: To study the latency and amplitude of VEMP in patients with BPPV and compare it with that of normal subjects.

Topical Mitomycin C in functional endoscopic sinus surgery.

In recent literature, there has been an interest in the use of Mitomycin C to reduce post-operative complications following endoscopic sinus surgery. We report our results on a prospective, randomized controlled trial involving 50 patients with chronic bilateral rhino sinusitis. We eliminated various confounding factors by studying a single group of patients, with symmetrical disease, without pre-existing gross anatomical abnormalities.

Manual stapedotomy still holds good in the era of laser.

Context: In the present era of stapedotomy, there is an inevitable role for laser. But the conventional technique with manual burr still has its own merits in various settings such as usage in resource poor setting in developing countries and avoidance of laser hazards.

Aims: To evaluate the audiometric outcomes after manual stapedotomy.

Case report: telelaryngoscopy-guided flexible fiberoptic intubation for laryngeal rhinosporidiosis.

Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous disease endemic in India and Sri Lanka. The causative microorganism, Rhinosporidium seeberi, remains a poorly understood pathogen, which has been described as an aquatic protistan parasite. Rhinosporidiosis presents as multiple polypoidal lesions affecting the mucosa of the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, and oropharynx.