Myopericytoma arising adjacent to the common carotid artery: Case report and systematic review of deep located neck myopericytomas.

Background: Myopericytoma is a perivascular tumor of the skin and subcutaneous tissue of the extremities, it is a rare finding in the head and neck, and even rarer is its deep location.

Methods: A 38-year-old woman presented with a slowly growing mass at the right carotid triangle. Contrast-enhanced CT scan revealed a moderately enhancing mass.

Myocutaneous sternocleidomastoid flap for reconstruction after the resection of a parapharyngeal heterotopic glioma in a child with cleft palate, and systematic review of parapharyngeal glial heterotopia.

We describe the surgery and reconstruction employed with a sternocleidomastoid myocutaneous flap for the treatment of a heterotopic glioma in a 2-year-old boy with incomplete palatal fissure who presented with dysphagia and snoring, in whom a lateral pharyngeal wall mass obstructing 60% of the airway was noted. Heterotopic gliomas are uncommonly reported in the parapharyngeal space and should be included in the differential diagnosis at this location in children. Parapharyngeal tumors present difficult diagnostic and management challenges; head and neck surgeons must be prepared not only for the resection but also for the reconstruction of these rare lesions.

Management of Ludwig's angina with small neck incisions: 18 years experience.

Objective: To review Ludwig's angina medical and surgical approach with small incisions.

Study Design: Retrospective, open, noncomparative, longitudinal.

Methods: All patients with Ludwig's angina who received medical, metabolic, airway management, and surgical treatment from January 1, 1983 to December 31, 2000.

[Endoscopic adenoidectomy; use or abuse of the technology?].

Objective: To evaluate efficacy of the conventional technique of adenoidectomy by means of transoperative endoscopic revision of the nasopharynx and to evaluate the need for including telescopes as part of usual instruments used in adenoidectomy.

Material And Methods: Prospective, open, comparative, and transversal study. We included the first 150 patients with absolute indication for adenoidectomy.

Infections after endoscopic polypectomy using nasal steroids.

Background: Topical nasal steroids such as beclomethasone dipropionate and fluticasone propionate have been widely used in the treatment of rhinitis and polyposis. An increase in infection has occurred with the use of fluticasone propionate after endoscopic polypectomy.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of nasal and paranasal infections with the use of topic nasal steroids after endoscopic polypectomy and to compare the recurrence rates of the polyposis.

Effects of three nasal topical steroids in the intraocular pressure compartment.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the use of fluticasone propionate, mometasone furoate, or beclomethasone dipropionate for the treatment of rhinitis produced, as a side effect, an increase in the intraocular pressure; only one printed article proclaims that the increase of secondary intraocular pressure is due to the use of local nasal steroids.

Patients And Study Design: We conducted a comparative, double-blind, experimental, prospective, longitudinal study in which 360 patients were divided at random into 4 groups; 90 of them were given a placebo (control group) and the other 270 were divided into 3 other groups of 90 patients each and given a different local nasal steroid for each group. Measurement parameters All patients had their intraocular pressure measured by Goldman's tonometry at 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year after using the placebo or local nasal steroid.