[Congenital malformations of nose and paranasal sinuses].

410 patients with malformations of the external ear or nasal cavity were examined. Basing on this evidence, clinical and diagnostic aspects of agenesias, hypogenesias, hypergenesia, dysgenesia, persistence and dystopias of the nose and intranasal structures are analyzed. Both severe and "minor" anomalies are considered.

[Short-latency auditory evoked potentials in infants with otitis media].

Auditory brain-stem potential findings in 154 healthy infants and infants with different forms of middle-ear pathological conditions (306 ears) were indicative of the inflammatory process influence on the parameters of auditory reception in most cases. The changes in the waves' forms and intraoperative morphological findings in the middle ear were correlated. Objective audiometry allows definite determination of the middle ear trouble which is important in diagnosis of latent otitis in infants who are especially prone to this disease.

[Diagnosis and treatment of congenital defects and abnormalities of the nasal cavity in children and adults].

In 300 patients with congenital defects and abnormalities of the nasal cavity development, physiological functions of the nose were investigated, using advanced methods, e. g. rhinofibroscopy, microrhinoscopy, rhinopneumometry, olfactometry, thermometry of the nasal mucosa, and pH measurement of the nasal mucus.

[Clinical syndromes in congenital defects and developmental anomalies of the nasal cavity].

Clinical syndromes that accompany congenital diseases and developmental abnormalities of the nasal cavity are presented. The data are derived from clinical and functional investigations (rhinospirometry, olfactometry, rhinofibroscopy, rhinomicroscopy, examination of the motor function on the ciliated epithelium, etc) of 160 patients with the above pathologies. Based on the examinations, the following clinical syndromes can be identified: nasal asymmetry, nasal obstruction, respiratory, olfactory, mucociliary and reflex syndromes.