The effect of BMP-2, BMP-4 and BMP-6 on bone destruction of cholesteatoma presence.

Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between the destruction of temporal bone structures, ossicular chain destruction, dissemination of cholesteatoma and the expressions of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), BMP-2, BMP-4 and BMP-6 in patients with acquired cholesteatoma.

Material And Methods: This study was performed in a total of 80 patients with cholesteatoma and without cholesteatoma who had undergone surgery due to chronic otitis media. The patients were grouped as the study and the control groups.

The evaluation of vestibular functions in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome.

The main objective of the study is to evaluate vestibular system of the inner ear with postural tests in the patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX). It is clinical case-control study. The study group included 34 patients with PEX and 40 controls without PEX.

Lipid peroxidation in patients with brain tumor.

Molecular and genetic signatures may predict brain tumor behavior and may soon guide tumor classification, diagnosis, and tumor-specific treatment strategies. Free oxygen radicals (FOR) are thought to take part in oncogenesis and cellular differentiation. This article explored the state of FORs and antioxidant system in patients with cerebral tumor.

Oxidants and antioxidants in tonsillar and adenoidal tissue in chronic adenotonsillitis and adenotonsillar hypertrophy in children.

Objective: The aim of the study is to determine the possible role of oxidants and antioxidants in the pathogenesis of chronic adenotonsillitis and adenotonsillar hypertrophy in children.

Patients And Methods: The children were divided into infection and hypertrophy groups, which were comparable according to age and gender distribution. The infection group was consisted of 20 children with the diagnosis of chronic adenotonsillitis and the hypertrophy group was made up of 19 children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy to whom adenotonsillectomy was performed.