Clinical Observation of Various Types of Idiopathic Hypertrophic Cranial Pachymeningitis.

Background: To assist doctors in making better treatment decisions and improve patient prognosis, it is important to determine which therapy modalities are suitable for various forms of idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis (IHCP).

Methods: All cases were received from the hospital medical record system, and some follow-up information was gathered through telephone follow-up.

Results: A total of 26 patients, 14 men and 12 women, with ages ranging from 20 to 73 years and a mean of 47.

Otological IgG4-Related Disease With Inner Ear Involvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature.

Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a chronic inflammatory disease involving multiple organs. Some studies have reported otological manifestations of IgG4-RD, although most studies describe involvement of the middle ear, and reports on inner ear manifestations are limited. Here, we describe a case of a 30-year-old man with IgG4-RD involving the inner ear.

Traumatic Stapediovestibular Dislocation With Intact Stapes: Report and Review.

Stapediovestibular dislocation is a rare disorder as a result of traumatic injury to the structures in the middle ear. We described a case of a 60-year-old female with stapediovestibular dislocation with associated perilymph fistula. She presented with symptoms including hearing loss, vertigo, and tinnitus after a penetrating injury by an ear pick.

[Endoscopic skull base surgery under the guidance of image navigation technology].

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of image navigation technology in endoscopic skull base surgery.

Methods: This study consisted of 75 patients who underwent the endoscopic operations with the help of the image navigation system by the same surgeon between March 2010 and March 2013. The time to prepair image navigation system, identifying anatomical structure, complications, tumor resection, and follow-up results were analysed.

The effectiveness topical amphotericin B in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis: a meta-analysis.

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is believed to be the result of an exaggerated reaction to fungi in the nasal mucosa, and topical amphotericin B (AMB) is a commonly used treatment. The purpose of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of high-quality comparative studies to examine the efficacy of topical AMB for the treatment of CRS. A search was conducted of Medline, Cochrane, EMBASE, and ISI Web of Knowledge until December 31, 2013 using combinations of the search terms chronic rhinosinusitis, human, treatment, antibiotics, nasal irrigation, nebulized, nasal lavage, sinonasal rinses, and antimicrobials.

[Hearing impairment in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease].

Objective: To study the relationship between the degrees of peripheral auditory dysfunction and clinical dementia rating (CDR) in the patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Methods: Pure-tone thresholds (PT), word recognition scores (WRS), acoustic immittance and auditory brain-stem responses (ABR) were done to evaluate the auditory function in 24 cases of the patients with MCI and in 31 cases of the patients with AD and in 50 subjects of the control group. Clinical dementia rating (CDR) questionnaire was used to define the dementia degree of the subjects.

[Hearing impairment in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type].

Objective: To evaluate the pure tone hearing threshold and word recognition score of senile dementia of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and to analyze the relationship between hearing loss and the cognition impairment.

Methods: Pure tone audiometry, word recognition score (WRS), acoustic immittance and auditory brainstem response (ABR) are used to evaluate the auditory function of 43 patients with AD and 50 subjects of the control group. The confounding factors are controlled.