The effects of nasal base stabilization techniques on nasal tip rigidity.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the degree of nasal tip rigidity from different techniques for increasing nasal tip projection.

Methods: Retrospective records of patients who had undergone rhinoplasty were reviewed at the tertiary referral center. 81 patients who had undergone suturing of the medial crura to the extension graft or to the long septum were selected.

Comparison of incus interpositioning technique versus glass ionomer cement application in type 2 tympanoplasty.

Objective of this study is to compare glass ionomer cement application and incus interpositioning techniques in patients who have chronic otitis media, conductive hearing loss with intact tympanic membrane and who undergo hearing reconstruction of staged surgery using a retrospective chart review in the setting of Ministry of Health Ankara Training and Research Hospital ENT Clinic, Turkey. We retrospectively evaluated patients who underwent otological surgery and hearing reconstruction with auto graft incus during 2005-2008 or glass ionomer cement during 2008-2010. Patients who had cholesteatoma, stapes fixation and tympanosclerosis were excluded.

A rare case of asymptomatic bilateral submandibular gland sialolithiasis: a giant, fistulized calculus on the right and multiple calculi on the left.

Sialolithiasis is the most common disease of the submandibular gland; sialoliths account for at least 80% of all salivary duct calculi. We present a rare case of asymptomatic bilateral submandibular gland sialoliths. On the right, the patient had a giant (35 × 35 mm) sialolith that had fistulized into the oral cavity.

[Epidural abscess and encephalocele following tegmen defect due to mastoidectomy: a case report].

In chronic otitis media surgery, especially in cases with cholesteatoma, different complications can occur in the course of the operation or postoperatively. In our clinic, in one of the cases who had staged canal-wall down operation for otitis media with cholesteatoma, an iatrogenic 0.5x0.

First-choice treatment in mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea: single-stage, multilevel, temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction or nasal continuous positive airway pressure.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of single-stage, multilevel, temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction (TCRFTVR) for the soft palate and base of the tongue with that of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in primary treatment of mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea.

Design: A prospective nonrandomized clinical study.

Setting: Tertiary care referral center.

Determination of Helicobacter pylori in patients with chronic nonspecific pharyngitis.

Objectives/hypothesis: To determine if there is a relationship between Helicobacter pylori colonization in the pharynx mucous membrane and chronic nonspecific pharyngitis.

Study Design: A prospective clinical study.

Methods: Seventy patients with chronic pharyngitis and 20 healthy control subjects were examined with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and culture for H.

The preventive effect of ginkgo biloba extract in myringosclerosis: study in rats.

Objective: To determine the preventive effect of Ginkgo biloba extract in the formation of myringosclerosis.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized clinical study.

Materials And Methods: Posterosuperior quadrant of tympanic membranes of twenty-five Wistar Albino rats were bilaterally myringotomized.

Ossiculoplasty with intact stapes: analysis of hearing results according to the middle ear risk index.

Conclusions: In ossiculoplasty with intact stapes, using autologous incus, cortex bone chips and plastipore partial ossicular reconstruction prostheses, improvement in hearing was nearly equal. In patients who had mild risk scores, the incus had better gain values compared with patients who had severe scores.

Objective: We aimed to prove the utility of the middle ear risk index score and its predictive value in hearing outcome.

Ginkgo biloba, a free oxygen radical scavenger, affects inflammatory mediators to diminish the occurrence of experimental myringosclerosis.

Conclusion: Systemic Ginkgo biloba extract treatment reduces the levels of nitrite/nitrate, malondialdehyde, and superoxide dismutase and increases the levels of glutathione peroxidase. By scavenging free oxygen radicals, ginkgo extract prevents the formation of myringosclerosis.

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate inflammatory mediators to determine the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect of Ginkgo biloba extract to diminish myringosclerosis.

The effect of stapes mobility on hearing outcome and which procedure to choose in fixed stapes in children tympanosclerosis.

Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the features of tympanosclerosis in children and to determine the effect of stapes mobility and the type of one-stage operation on hearing outcomes.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-one children who were performed different types of single-stage otologic surgery for tympanosclerosis between January 1997 and December 2006 were retrospectively chart reviewed. The children were divided into two groups according to the mobility of ossicular chain, especially the stapes.

Comparison of radiofrequency tissue volume reduction and submucosal resection with microdebrider in inferior turbinate hypertrophy.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of submucosal temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction (TCRFTVR) and resection with microdebrider (SMRM) in chronic inferior turbinate hypertrophy.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, and single-blinded clinical trial.

Methods: The study group consisted of 30 symptomatic patients who underwent simultaneous TCRFTVR and SMRM for consecutive sides.

Bilateral congenital choanal atresia in a 7-day-old patient: transnasal endoscopic repair with stent.

Congenital choanal atresia (CCA) is the developmental failure of the nasal cavity to communicate with nasopharynx. Surgical repair is recommended in the first weeks of life in bilateral cases because this is a life-threatening situation in newborns. This paper is a case report of a 7-day-old full term girl infant presenting the history of attacks of cyanosis and having difficulty in suckling and respiration.

Success is a matter of experience: type 1 tympanoplasty : influencing factors on type 1 tympanoplasty.

Our objective was to identify the factors that could influence the success rate of type 1 tympanoplasty in a tertiary care centre where both residents and senior surgeons perform this operation. Six hundred and seven patients who had been performed type 1 tympanoplasty as a primary otologic surgery between January 1997 and December 2004 were retrospectively chart reviewed. The patients had intact and mobile ossicular chain peroperatively.