A randomized clinical study: outcome of submucous resection of compensatory inferior turbinate during septoplasty.

Background: Septoplasty and/or turbinate surgery are commonly used surgical techniques for the treatment of mechanical nasal obstruction. The aim of this study was to define the effectiveness of submucous resection of a hypertrophied turbinate together with simultaneous septoplasty for the treatment of nasal obstruction.

Methods: Forty-two patients with septum deviation and compensatory contralateral inferior turbinate hypertrophy were recruited in this study.

The frequency of auditory neuropathy detected by universal newborn hearing screening program.

Objective: Auditory neuropathy/auditory dyssynchrony (AN/AD) has become a well-accepted clinical entity. The combined use of oto-acoustic emissions (OAEs) and auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing in the universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) has led to the easy recognition of this disorder. Although, we are now able to diagnose AN/AD reliably, little is known about its epidemiology, etiology, and especially the frequency of its occurrence.

Plexiform neurofibroma of the tongue: a case report of a child.

A three-year-old girl with a lingual plexiform neurofibroma treated by total excision is presented. Despite their occurrence in the head and neck region, neural sheath tumors are rarely encountered in the oral cavity. It is reported that 4-7% of patients affected by neurofibromatosis display oral manifestations.

Auditory neuropathy in children: diagnostic criteria and audiological test results.

Objectives: In this study, we evaluated pediatric patients with auditory neuropathy with regard to diagnostic criteria and audiological test results.

Patients And Methods: Hearing assessment was made in five children with auditory neuropathy (3 boys, 2 girls; age range 7 months to 6 years). The patients were tested with the use of acoustic immitance measures, transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE), behavioral audiometry, and auditory brainstem responses (ABR).

[The incidence of level I metastasis in laryngopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma].

Objectives: We investigated the incidence of level I metastasis in patients with laryngeal and hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).

Patients And Methods: The records of 126 patients who underwent primary tumor excision with radical neck dissection (RND) or its modifications for laryngeal or hypopharyngeal SCC were retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative tumor and neck stages, the sites and the number of metastatic lymph nodes were recorded.