The Short- and Long-Term Outcome of Intratympanic Steroid Therapy as a Salvage Treatment for Acute Low-Tone Sensorineural Hearing Loss without Episodes of Vertigo.

Objectives: To evaluate the hearing outcomes of intratympanic steroid (ITS) treatment for patients with acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss (ALHL) after failure of initial therapy and to investigate the recurrence and progression to definite Ménière's disease (MD) during a long-term follow-up.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 90 patients with refractory ALHL who were followed up for at least 1 year between January 2000 and April 2014. Patients who responded poorly to initial medical treatment received intratympanic dexamethasone injections (ITS group) or isosorbide administration for 4 weeks (diuretic group) as salvage treatment options according to their choice of management.

Nasopharyngeal hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma with EWSR1 rearrangements diagnosed by fluorescence in situ hybridization.

Hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma (HCCC) is a rare, low-grade salivary gland neoplasm with a predilection for the palate and tongue. A 63-year-old woman presented a 14×14×17-mm mass at the roof of the nasopharynx. Endoscopic resection was performed via a transnasal approach.

A case of immunoglobulin 4-related disease with bilateral mass-forming lesions in the nasolacrimal ducts.

This case study describes a 58-year-old man with watery eyes, bilateral swelling of the ala nasi and submandibular glands, and a swollen right parotid gland. Computed tomography revealed mass-forming lesions in both nasolacrimal ducts, extending bilaterally to the lacrimal sac and inferior meatus in the nose. Pathologic investigation showed marked infiltrates of immunoglobulin 4 (IgG4)-positive plasma cells in the nasolacrimal duct lesion, which led us to diagnose IgG4-related disease.

False-negative diffusion-weighted MRI in acute cerebellar stroke.

Objective: To heighten physician awareness of false-negative diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic-resonance imaging findings in patients with acute cerebellar infarction and the importance of periodically observing nystagmus after symptom onset.

Methods: Between April 2007 and March 2010, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of eight patients who had all complained of severe isolated vertigo or dizziness, and had visited an emergency department within 2-6h of its onset. Intracranial findings on initial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were normal.

A comparison of the short-term outcome in patients with acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss.

Purpose Of The Study: We aimed to compare the short-term outcome of patients with acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss (ALHL) treated with steroid alone, diuretics alone or combination treatment.

Procedures: Between April 2000 and March 2009, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 156 patients with a diagnosis of ALHL. All patients were followed up until improvement or for 8 weeks from the initial examination.

The accuracy of (18)[F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography, ultrasonography, and enhanced computed tomography alone in the preoperative diagnosis of cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of [(18)F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D: -glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography, ultrasonography, and enhanced computed tomography alone in the preoperative diagnosis of lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Methods: In a prospective study performed between January 2007 and December 2009, 74 patients with a diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma confirmed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy were referred to our institution for surgery. Preoperative assessment of metastasis in the central and lateral cervical lymph nodes was done using [(18)F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D: -glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography, ultrasonography, and enhanced computed tomography.

Paranasal sinus mucoceles with visual disturbance.

Objective: Paranasal sinus mucoceles may cause visual disturbance in patients because of their close proximity to the orbit. We aimed to investigate visual prognosis to determine whether it is influenced by the interval before surgery and the severity of visual disturbance, and to heighten the physician's awareness of the occurrence of this disease.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed eight surgically treated patients with paranasal sinus mucoceles accompanied by visual disturbances between March 2005 and January 2009, and examined the visual acuity outcome of the patients.

Non-organic hearing loss in childhood.

Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the etiology, symptoms, diagnosis and prognosis of pediatric patients with non-organic hearing loss (NOHL), and to heighten awareness of this disorder among physicians.

Methods: Between January 2000 and July 2009, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 47 pediatric patients (aged 6-18 years of age) diagnosed with NOHL. The diagnosis was made when there were audiometric discrepancies between the subjective and objective hearing thresholds of the patient in the absence of any organic disease.

A case of idiopathic lymph leakage in the neck.

A 48-year-old female patient was seen in our institution complaining of sudden onset of swelling and tenderness in the left side of her neck. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed abundant effusions in this area. Since these narrowed the patient's airway, we performed incisional drainage and intra-operatively we observed a transparent, colorless lymph fluid that oozed from the operative field, which was mainly a fatty layer at the supraclavicular area.

Thrombolytic therapy for traumatic unilateral renal artery thrombosis.

We report a case of traumatic unilateral renal artery thrombosis that was successfully treated by thrombolytic therapy. The patient was a 17-year-old woman, who had put her left upper abdomen between a wall and the handle of a ground roller when using it. A computed tomography scan with intravenous contrast showed a lack of contrast in the left kidney.

[A case of parotid carcinoma with hepatic metastasis that responded remarkably to combination chemotherapy of docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil].

A patient who had parotid gland carcinoma with hepatic metastasis (T4N2bM1) underwent 3 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with docetaxel, cisplatin and fluorouracil (TPF). After this treatment, the patient showed a PR in the primary site and a CR in the hepatic metastasis. Left total parotidectomy and modified radical neck dissection were then performed followed by postoperative irradiation of 40 Gy.