Frequency and causes of hearing impairment in tertiary care center.

Objective: To determine the frequency and causes of hearing impairment in patients attending the out patient department of Civil Hospital Karachi.

Methods: This study was carried out at the ENT department of Civil Hospital Karachi from January 1998 to October 2000. Six hundred patients were randomly selected from the out patient department.

Fine needle aspiration cytology: sensitivity and specificity in thyroid lesions.

Background: Thyroid enlargement is one of the common problems in patients presenting at outpatients department of ENT particularly in females. Thyroid nodules are common, thyroid cancer is uncommon and the most common way for it to present is as a solitary thyroid nodule. This study was conducted to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) in thyroid diseases.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic suppurative otitis media: sensitivity spectrum against various antibiotics in Karachi.

Background: Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a prevailing and notorious infection in developing countries causing serious local damage and threatening complications. Early and effective treatment based on the knowledge of causing micro organisms and their sensitivity results in good clinical recovery and prevents from damage and complications. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is most common pathogen causing CSOM in Pakistan.

Morphological pattern of parotid gland tumours.

Objective: To determine the morphological pattern of parotid tumours.

Study Design: Case series.

Place And Duration Of Study: ENT Department of Karachi Medical and Dental College and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi, from 1990 to 2004.