Single-use take-away cups of paper are as toxic to aquatic midge larvae as plastic cups.

Single-use plastics and food packaging are the most common items polluting the environment, commonly identified in surveys and litter monitoring campaigns. There are pushes to ban these products from production and use in different regions, and to replace them with other materials viewed as "safer" or "more sustainable". Here, we address the potential environmental impacts of take-away cups and lids used for hot and cold beverages, consisting of plastic or paper.

Pediatric sudden sensorineural hearing loss: Experience in a pediatric ENT emergency care center.

Objectives: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is relatively rare and its physiopathology remains unclear, particularly in children. Our goal was to evaluate clinical characteristics, etiologies, management, treatment outcomes and prognostic factors in the pediatric population.

Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of all children registered for SSNHL between August 2004 and September 2017 in a tertiary care pediatric hospital.

Intra-cochlear electrode tip fold-over.

Cochlear implantation has been performed safely for over two decades but still has various minor and major complications. We report two cases of an unusual complication of electrode implantation: tip fold-over of the electrode array within the cochlea. Both cases required undergoing explantation and re-implantation.

Pain After Cochlear Implantation: An Unusual Complication?

Objective: To analyze clinical signs and better define the underestimated long-term pain after implantation, to discuss etiological hypothesis, and to propose our department treatment algorithm and results.

Study Design And Setting: Retrospective review of children implanted with complaints of atypical pain in the area of device implantation, not in the immediate postoperative period, more than or equal to 4 on the Visual Analog Pain Scale (VAPS: 0-10) in the ENT pediatric department of Trousseau and Necker Enfants Malades Hospitals between 1998 and 2015.

Patients: All patients had full clinical and electrophysiological checking, and had normal functioning device.

Results of VSB implantation at the short process of the incus in children with ear atresia.

Objective(s): To describe a new and more simple surgical procedure for implanting the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) on the short process of the incus in children with ear atresia and atretic plate and present the audiometric results.

Methods: Since 2014, pre- and post-operative audiometric tests with tonal and vocal audiometryat the maximal follow up, respectively 33, 22 and 12 months were performed after VSB implantation at the ENT department, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France. 3 children aged 11, 9 and 15 years with conductive hearing loss due to high grade ear atresia and absent ear canal were implanted.

Using a new otologic operating microscope: unexpected complications.

The present work report cases of auricular burns after routine otologic surgery possibly induced by the operating microscope. Single-center retrospective study. April 2013 to January 2014, eight children presented with auricular burns after otologic surgery.

Cochlear implantation and vestibular function in children.

Objectives: To analyze vestibular function Q2 (VF) after cochlear implantation (CI) in children.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study at a tertiary pediatric referral center. 43 children that had vestibular testing (VT) after unilateral cochlear implantation, from 2001 to 2010, were included.

Idiopathic bilateral vocal cord paralysis in infants: Case series and literature review.

Objectives/hypothesis: Vocal fold paralysis is the second most common congenital laryngeal anomaly in newborns. Bilateral paralysis is a severe condition and often remains of unknown etiology. We report our experience of congenital idiopathic bilateral vocal fold paralysis in newborns and infants, and discuss the therapeutic options.

Cochlear implant failure and revision surgery in pediatric population.

Objective: This study aimed to report pediatric cochlear reimplantation data focusing on failure of the device and to assess surgical challenges and functional outcomes.

Methods: Retrospective case review from 1990 to 2012. Tertiary referral academic center.

Management specificities of congenital laryngeal stenosis: external and endoscopic approaches.

Objectives/hypothesis: This study aimed to report our experience in the management of congenital laryngeal stenosis and to compare our series and results to published data in the literature.

Study Design: Retrospective case series. Tertiary referral center for rare pediatric head and neck malformations.

Autologous fat transfer in velopharyngeal insufficiency: indications and results of a 25 procedures series.

Objective: To assess the efficiency of autologous fat transfer (AFT/Coleman procedure) in the management of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI).

Settings: Tertiary academic center, retrospective case series over a 4 year period. Pre- and post-speech assessment by a speech pathologist using the Borel-Maisonny scale.

Isolated malleus-handle fracture.

Objective: Isolated malleus fracture is a rare ossicular injury with less than 80 cases published in the literature. The aim of this paper is to present a series of 3 patients with isolated malleus handle fracture, to review the literature and to discuss clinical presentation, imaging findings and treatment options.

Methods: We retrospectively a case series of 3 patients with isolated malleus handle fracture managed at a tertiary referral otologic center.

Medical and surgical complications in pediatric cochlear implantation.

Objectives: To report complications of cochlear implantation (CI) in children and to analyze risk factors.

Design: Retrospective study from January 1, 1990, through April 30, 2008, with a mean follow-up of 5.5 years (range, 1 month to 17 years).