Online residency training during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey of otolaryngology head and neck surgery program directors.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted healthcare and education systems, including resident education. The impact of the pandemic on the different types of pedagogical activities, and the displacement of pedagogical activities to online modalities have not yet been quantified. We sought to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on formal pedagogic components of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery (ORL-HNS) residency, the switch to distance learning and program director's perceptions of the future of teaching and learning.

Necrotizing epiglottitis with necrotizing fasciitis in a child: A case report and review of literature.

Necrotizing epiglottitis (NE) is a rare but extremely serious variant of acute bacterial epiglottitis. So far, it has been reported mostly in immunocompromised adults and only seldomly in the pediatric population. We describe the case of a 15-month-old immunocompetent child who presented to our tertiary referral center with necrotizing epiglottitis.

Juvenile psammomatoid ossifying fibroma: A radiolucent lesion to suspect preoperatively.

We present the cases of 2 expansive juvenile psammomatoid ossifying fibromas from sinonasal origin. Our first patient presented with a fronto-ethmoidal mass invading the orbit and the cranial base and had a bicoronal approach for tumor removal. The second patient also had orbital involvement and underwent an endoscopic surgery.