A minimally invasive technique for the implantation of bone-anchored hearing devices.

Objective: To describe and evaluate a novel technique for the implantation of bone conduction hearing devices as compared with a common, conventional technique.

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: Tertiary referral otology and neurotology practice.

Otoprotective effects of dexamethasone in the management of pneumococcal meningitis: an animal study.

Objective: To determine whether treating pneumococcal meningitis with a combined antibiotic and steroid regime will prevent cochlear damage, a common pneumococcal meningitis side effect.

Study Design: Prospective animal study.

Methods: Gerbils were randomly assigned to three experimental groups.

Dysgeusia and cholesteatoma.

Objective: To describe an individual with cholesteatoma whose sole presenting symptom was dysgeusia.

Study Design: Case report.

Method: A retrospective review of an individual presenting with dysgeusia without any hearing loss, otorrhea, or imbalance who was found to have chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma.

Hearing aids: a review of what's new.

Objective: To review the recent innovations in hearing aid technology.

Study Design: Review of the literature.

Setting: Private tertiary referral otology/neurotology practice.

A study of the link between gastric reflux and chronic sinusitis in adults.

Much discussion is taking place regarding the role of gastric reflux disease in the development and maintenance of chronic sinus disease. We studied 31 patients in a large urban private practice who had recalcitrant chronic sinusitis despite aggressive medical and surgical therapy. After we obtained information on the severity of each patient's sinus disease, we performed either double- or triple-catheter probe pH testing to assess the presence of reflux disease.

Warthin-like tumor of the thyroid gland: an uncommon variant of papillary thyroid cancer.

Several variants of papillary thyroid cancer have been described, including, most recently, Warthin-like tumor of the thyroid gland. To bring attention to this uncommon variant, we review previous reports on this entity and we add 5 new cases to the literature. We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients who had undergone thyroidectomy at our institution during a 7-year period.

Should ossicular reconstruction be staged following tympanomastoidectomy.

Objectives: To determine whether ossicular reconstruction (OCR) performed concurrent with tympanomastoidectomy for cholesteatoma results in significantly different hearing results when compared to OCR performed in a separate, staged procedure.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Materials And Methods: Study subjects were patients undergoing OCR within a 2-year period.

Cochlear preservation after meningitis: an animal model confirmation of adjunctive steroid therapy.

Objective/hypothesis: The objective of the present study was to determine whether treating pneumococcal meningitis with a combined antibiotic and steroid regime will prevent cochlear damage, a common pneumococcal meningitis side effect.

Study Design: This was a prospective animal study.

Methods: Gerbils were randomly assigned to three experimental groups.

Titanium mesh for functional reconstruction of the mastoid cortex after mastoidectomy.

Objective: To describe a rapid and effective means of reconstructing the mastoid cortex after mastoidectomy for chronic otitis media with and without cholesteatoma.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Setting: Tertiary referral otology clinic.

Trends in the diagnosis and the management of Meniere's disease: results of a survey.

Objective: To determine the practices of the American Neurotology Society (ANS) membership in the evaluation and treatment of the Meniere's patient.

Study Design: Prospective.

Intervention: Questionnaire.

Electrocochleography in patients with Meniere's disease.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of electrocochleography (ECoG) in the diagnosis of Meniere's disease.

Study Design: This study is a retrospective case review.

Methods: Patients undergoing ECoG for Meniere's disease between 1995 and 2003 were identified and segregated as having definite , probable , or possible Meniere's disease according to the 1995 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery guidelines for Meniere's disease classification.

Long-term effects of cerebellar retraction in the microsurgical resection of vestibular schwannomas.

Objective: To determine the long-term effects, if any, of the greater cerebellar retraction that is required for retrosigmoid vestibular schwannoma versus resection as compared with the minimal, if any, cerebellar retraction required for translabyrinthine versus resection.

Study Design: Retrospective case control.

Methods: All patients who underwent retrosigmoid versus resection between 1988 to 2000 by one surgeon were identified.

Obstructive congenital epulis: prenatal diagnosis and perinatal management.

Objective: To describe a multidisciplinary approach for delivery room management of congenital epulis.

Study Design: Case reports.

Methods: Reporting of two cases of congenital epulis and review of the literature.