[Effects of one cycle of inhalation crenotherapy with radioactive fluoridated oligomineral].

The objective of the study was to test the effects of inhalation crenotherapy using the radioactive, fluoridated oligomineral waters from the Merano Spa on both subjects with specific upper respiratory tract phlogosis and normal subjects. The double-blind study was performed on a population of 27 adults of both sexes treated with radioactive-fluoridated water (group A) and 20 subjects, suffering from the same chronic catarrh pathology, selected with the same criteria but treated with inhalation of steam and an aerosol using drinking water from the municipal water supply (group C). In addition, a group of 13 subjects--which in terms of age and sex were statistically comparable to groups A and C but who did not show any signs of acute or chronic upper respiratory tract pathologies (group B) were also treated with the radioactive-fluoridated waters.

[Effects of sulphur-arsenic-ferrous water treatment on specific chronic phloglosis of the upper respiratory tract].

The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the therapeutic effect sulphurous-arsenical-ferruginous waters from had on aspecific phlogosis of the upper respiratory tract (URT). This double-blind study involved treating 37 adults of both sexes with sulphurous-arsenical-ferrignous water (group A) and another 14 subjects, again suffering from the same aspecific, chronic catarrhal disorder and selected with the same criteria, with the aerosol vapor inhalation of drinking water from the city mains (group B). All subjects included in the study underwent the following tests both before and after the cycle of crenotherapy: Objective E.

[Positional impedance tests with acetazolamide: a clinical test for evaluating endolymphatic hydrops].

The authors report on the possible advantages acetazolamide, in conjunction with Positional Impedenzometry, can provide in the detection of minor labyrinthine hydrops and major labyrinthine fluid tension disorders. This study was carried out using the case/control method. The subjects were selected on the basis of symptoms and clinical examination revealing signs of endolymphatic hydrops.

Occult metastases in cancer of the larynx and their relationship to clinical and histological aspects of the primary tumor: a four-year multicentric research.

The authors have tried to verify whether some clinical or pathological features of laryngeal cancer may favor the occurrence of occult metastases in the lymph nodes of the neck in N0 cases. The purpose of the investigation was to define the possible existence of tumors, where elective neck dissection, in the absence of palpable nodes, could be done without, thus contributing to settlement of a long debated problem. Different parameters, both clinical and pathological, have been considered.

Wave VII recognizability in brainstem auditory-evoked potentials.

Brainstem auditory-evoked potentials (BAEP) recorded with a far-field from the scalp technique are generally described as 7 positive waves in the initial post-stimulatory 10 ms period. Also at high stimulus intensities, the Jewett wave VII appears to be undetectable in the majority of normal subjects. We present an original recording method to reproducibly detect this late BAEP wave.