Thrombosed phlebectasia of the external jugular vein with neck pain.

Jugular phlebectasia is a dilation of the vein. It is observed clinically as a soft, bulky tumour in the neck, with no pain. Rarely seen in adults, there are only a few cases described in the literature.

[Treatment of cervical adenopathies secondary to oropharyngeal tularaemia. Our experience in 8 patients].

Tularaemia is an uncommon zoonosis in our country. In the outbreak in 2007, there was a notably high incidence of the oropharyngeal form. We report our experience in eight patients with oropharyngeal tularaemia with cervical adenopathies.

[Nasal closure as definitive treatment for epistaxis in Rendu-Osler-Weber disease].

Objective: To show the result of this surgical technique for the treatment of nasal bleeding in Rendu-Osler-Weber disease.

Method: After great efforts to obtain informed consent for the procedure, considered as a final therapeutic attempt, we present here the surgical technique used in a severe long-standing case with frequent symptoms that required a large number of admissions to our hospital and caused our patient considerable social, family and work-related psychological problems.

Results: The surgical procedure was performed 14 months ago, with no further epistaxis since then, thus bringing to an end the emergency admissions, rated at 7 per year, and reducing consultations at the digestive and psychological clinics.

[Hearing impairment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics of hearing loss (HL) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Material And Method: A comparative case-control study was performed with 194 patients and 107 healthy subjects. All of them were submitted to pure-tone audiometry and detection of inflammatory parameters and Western blot for anticochlear antibodies.