[Endoscopic management of paranasal sinus mucoceles: experience with 46 patients].

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine changes in the surgical treatment of patients with the diagnosis of paranasal mucoceles managed in a Latin American hospital. We hypothesised that endonasal endoscopic surgeries had emerged as the main treatment option for this disease in the last five years.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of all patients who were diagnosed with paranasal sinus mucoceles and treated at the Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Department of our hospital from 2002 to 2010 was performed.

Paranasal sinuses computed tomography in the initial evaluation of patients with suspected invasive fungal rhinosinusitis.

Invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (IFR) is a complication that presents mainly in immunocompromised patients. Paranasal sinuses computed tomography (PCT) is frequently obtained during initial evaluation of suspected cases. The objective of the study was to determine the imaging findings that suggest IFR in patients with hematological malignancies.

[Cross sectional search for skin lesions in 118 diabetic patients].

Background: Thirty percent of patients with diabetes mellitus have some skin lesion that is directly related to the disease or caused by infections, complications or treatments used.

Aim: To determine the frequency and type of skin lesions in diabetic patients.

Material And Methods: Cross sectional examination of 26 patients with type 1 diabetes, 75 patients with type 2 diabetes and 17 patients with gestational diabetes.

[Results of laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of diverticular disease of the colon].

Background: The laparoscopic approach is an alternative for the elective treatment of diverticular colon disease (DCD).

Aim: To analyze the results of patients electively operated for DCD using a laparoscopic technique.

Material And Methods: Data of patients with DCD operated using laparoscopy at the Catholic University of Chile Clinical Hospital were prospectively recorded from January 1999 to August 2006.