Jugulotympanic Paraganglioma With Preoperative Embolization That Led to Facial Nerve Paralysis and Surgical Rerouting of the Nerve.

Paragangliomas are mostly benign, slow-growing, hypervascular tumors originating from neural crest derivatives. Head and neck (H&N) paragangliomas represent <1% of all H&N tumors and <5% are malignant. They are mostly non-secreting tumors that originate from autonomous parasympathetic paraganglia.

Therapeutic approach to Gradenigo's syndrome: a case report.

Introduction: Traditional management of Gradenigo's syndrome requires aggressive and radical surgery without any attempt to preserve hearing. Recent reports, however, describe a successful outcome after conservative surgical intervention without labyrinthectomy. A similar outcome has also been reported in patients who were only prescribed with antibiotics and did not undergo myringotomy.

Aesthetic reconstruction of a crooked nose via extracorporeal septoplasty.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness, indications, and contraindications of the extracorporeal approach in treating a severely deviated nose.

Methods: Sixty-four patients operated on for aesthetic correction of a severely deviated nose were studied. Forty-six of them were first operations and 18 were revision cases.

Intracranial primary synovial sarcoma: radiologic-pathologic correlation.

We present a very rare case of spontaneous intracranial synovial sarcoma. A 15-year-old female was admitted to our institution for a cervical spine MRI, reporting a gradual pain of the dorsal neck after an injury three months previously. After obtaining the first sequence we discovered a large skull base mass.

Midfacial Degloving: The Best Alternative for Treatment of Trans-sphenoidal Meningocele of the Pterygopalatine Fossa.

Trans-sphenoid anterobasal temporal lobe meningoceles are rare and can be associated with temporal lobe epilepsy or recurrent meningitis. Surgical treatment is described via complicated infratemporal or intracranial approaches with high morbidity. A 32-year-old man presented with an 18-year history of two types of seizures and confirmed epileptic activity in electroencephalogram.