Efficacy of cartilage palisade tympanoplasty: randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: To calculate the efficacy (evaluating both morphologic and functional results) of cartilage palisade tympanoplasty (CPT) in comparison with tympanoplasty involving a temporalis muscle fascia (FT) graft.

Study Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: General Hospital.

Parasitic thyroid nodule in hashimoto's thyroiditis.

We present a case of parasitic thyroid nodule in a 62-year-old woman with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The patient underwent right hemithyroidectomy for a 15-mm nodule suspicious for malignancy. A recurrential ipsilateral lymph nodule was identified and removed.