Double skull base defects with primary spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leaks in a single patient: temporal and sphenoid bones.

Primary spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leaks occurring in the absence of any apparent cause are rare. Patients may present such leaks simultaneously, or successively, in multiple locations. We report here the sixth case of anterior and lateral skull base defects presented in a single patient.

[Acinic cell carcinoma in an ectopic salivary gland].

On the occasion of the coverage of a cervical tumefaction in a child, which led to the diagnosis of acinic cell carcinoma of ectopic salivary gland, the authors conducted a literature review of this tumour. If it is well known to pathologists when it is developed in the major or accessories salivary glands, its location within heterotopy of salivary tissue is much rarer. From a histological point of view it is difficult to distinguish, if primitive location, the occurrence of the tumour in an ectopic salivary gland, its occurrence in intra-node heterotopic salivary tissue.

Newborn hearing screening on infants at risk.

Objectives: This article presents the results of newborn hearing screenings on infants at risk of hearing impairment at the French University Hospital of Besançon from 2001 to 2007.

Materials And Methods: All newborns at risk of hearing impairment were tested according to the method recommended by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH): a two-step automated oto-acoustic emissions (AOAE) program, completed by an auditory brainstem response (ABR) for the positive diagnosis of hearing impairment. The screening started with AOAE on the third day of life, at the earliest.

[Mild head trauma: complications and acousticovestibular sequelae].

Head injury with fracture of the petrous bone is frequent and directly related to the development of human activity. Head trauma is associated with nearly 75% of traffic accidents; 5% of them with petrous bone fracture. Based on a clinical case, the acute injuries and secondary acoustic or vestibular sequelae after low-energy cranio-cerebral trauma are discussed here.