[Juvenile angiofibroma of the nasopharynx--clinical diagnosis and therapy].

Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is an infrequent epipharyngeal tumour necessitating particular diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in comparison to other benign epipharyngeal tumours due to its expansive growth tendency. Our retrospective study is aimed at presenting clinical casuistry of the tumour in order to evaluate modern diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. The study included 13 male patients, aged 13-24 years, who were hospitalized, diagnostically assessed and surgically treated at the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Centre of Serbia over the period 1990-June 2001.

[Brain abscesses of otogenic origin].

Chronic inflammation of the middle ear is the most frequent cause of otogenic complications. Meningitis is the most frequent otogenic intracranial complication, followed by otogenic brain abscesses, while other complications are significantly less frequent. The study is aimed at presenting clinical causitry of otogenic brain abscesses consequential to chronic suppurative otitis in order to evaluate modern diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities.