Minimal access and standard cochlear implantation: a comparative study.

Objective: To compare the operative times and complications between patients who underwent minimal access cochlear implantation and standard technique cochlear implantation.

Methods: Patients who underwent unilateral cochlear implantation by a single surgeon from 2001 to 2010. The minimal access technique of an approximately 2.

Comprehensive airway management of neonatal head and neck teratomas.

Objectives: To determine the success of initial airway management and to characterize late airway-related complications in patients with airway obstruction due to congenital head and neck teratomas.

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: Tertiary airway referral institution.

Safety and feasibility of elective minimally invasive video-assisted central neck dissection for thyroid carcinoma.

Background: Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) is accepted as treatment for select patients with thyroid carcinoma. We report both benefits and limitations of elective central neck dissection performed with the MIVAT technique.

Methods: Patients undergoing elective central neck dissection with MIVAT during November 2006 to October 2009 were studied retrospectively.

Intranasal Z-plasty for internal nasal valve collapse.

Objective: To describe the technique of intranasal Z-plasty and early results for this minimally invasive method to repair internal nasal valve collapse. Intranasal Z-plasty has been well described for nasal valve stenosis and cleft nasal deformities but poorly described for idiopathic nasal valve collapse, the most common indication for nasal valve surgery.

Design: A retrospective medical record review was performed for 12 patients undergoing intranasal Z-plasty for nasal valve collapse.