Evaluation of improvement of hearing in type I tympanoplasty & its influencing factors.

study included 40 patients treated for CSOM with central perforation. Only type I tympanoplasty was done in 30 patients with dry central perforation and simple mastoidectomy with type I tympanoplasty was performed in 10 patients with moist or discharging perforation. Type I tympanoplasty utilizing an underlay technique with TFG shows high probability of success (85%).

Growth retardation due to undiagnosed foreign body oesophagus.

Foreign body oesophagus, specially, coin is not very uncommon in children. But an undiagnosed old foreign body (coin) presented with growth retardation and swallowing in a peculiar posture, which has to be removed by thoracotomy-a case report.

A rare case of Hamartoma of nose and upper lip.

Hamartoma though quite common in face and head-neck region, huge size of such a magnitude is not very common- hence the case is being reported.