Sialendoscopy: a new diagnostic and therapeutic tool.

Background: Sialendoscopy is a recently developed minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedure for the management of obstructive diseases of the salivary glands. This report describes our early experience with this new tool and compares our results with the literature data.

Material And Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of the 33 first cases treated at a teaching hospital from October 2009 to June 2011.

Management of voice prosthesis leakage with Blom-Singer large esophage and tracheal flange voice prostheses.

Introduction: Voice rehabilitation after total laryngectomy is a major socio-economic challenge. Voice rehabilitation can be achieved by voice prostheses, which provide rapid patient satisfaction. Enlarged tracheo-oesophageal puncture is a frequent complication and can be difficult to manage.

[Cranial fasciitis of childhood].

Objective: To describe the clinical and pathological features of cranial fasciitis of childhood, and to review and compare this case with those of international literature.

Methods: We report a case of cranial fasciitis of childhood located on the face of a 13-month-old boy. A complete review was performed from the database "Pub Med", looking for the key words "head and neck inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour", "nodular fasciitis", "cranial fasciitis of childhood".

The uses of computer-assisted surgical navigation in trans-nasal pituitary gland surgery.

Objectives: To examine the use of computer-assisted surgery in transnasal pituitary gland surgery.

Patients And Methods: Twenty cases of transnasal pituitary gland surgery using a computer-assisted navigation system, carried out between 2002 and 2004, were retrospectively studied. The subjects consisted of 7 men and 13 women aged between 27 and 77 years of ages.