Assessing the impact of migraine on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo symptoms and recovery.

Background: During episodes of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), individuals with migraine, compared with individuals without migraine, may experience more severe vestibular symptoms because of their hyperexcitable brain structures, more adverse effects on quality of life, and worse recovery processes from BPPV.

Methods: All patients with BPPV were assigned to the migraine group (MG, n = 64) and without migraine group (BPPV w/o MG, n = 64) and completed the Vertigo Symptom Scale (VSS), Vertigo Dizziness Imbalance Symptom Scale (VDI-SS), VDI Health-Related Quality of Life Scale (VDI-HRQoLS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) at the time of BPPV diagnosis (baseline) and on the one-month follow-up. Headache Impact Test-6 and Migraine Disability Assessment Scale were used for an assessment of headache.

The effect of migraine and motion sickness on symptoms evoked by the caloric vestibular test.

Background: The caloric vestibular test (CVT) may evoke headache and vestibular symptoms in susceptible people. Patients with migraines have higher susceptibility to motion sickness. In migraines, impaired habituation to repetitive stimuli is a well-known interictal abnormality.

Vestibular disorders in children: A retrospective analysis of vestibular function test findings.

Objective: This study was designed to describe the most common vestibular disorders in children and their associated findings on vestibular function testing.

Method: Data from 203 children with a mean age of 11.16 ± 3.

Research on the Effects of a Web-Based System With Oculomotor and Optokinetic Stimuli on Vestibular Rehabilitation.

Objective: The variety and use of technologies used in vestibular rehabilitation are very limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a Web-based system on vestibular rehabilitation in patients with vestibular hypofunction.

Design: A total of 20 patients with unilateral vestibular hypofunction were randomly assigned to two groups.

Determination of Anxiety, Health Anxiety and Somatosensory Amplification Levels in Individuals with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

Objectives: Psychiatric comorbidities may intensify peripheral vertigo and increase the number of repositioning maneuvers required. This study was designed to examine the relationship between benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and anxiety and assess its association with somatic amplification and health anxiety.

Materials And Methods: Sixty patients with BPPV (43 women, 17 men; age range: 24-81 years, mean age 40.

Effect of the Fascia Graft Size on Healing Rate of Cavities in Patients Undergoing CWD Tympanomastoidectomy: A Clinical Prospective Study.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of size of temporal fascia graft on healing of the mastoid cavity in patients undergoing canal wall down (CWD) procedures.

Materials And Methods: The study included 32 patients (ages from 10 to 69 years) who were performed CWD tympanomastoidectomy from 2016 to 2018. Patients were divided into 2 different groups randomly based on size of fascia used in the operations.

Bilateral internal acoustic canal mass.

We reported a case of bilateral internal acoustic canal mass. A 42-year-old man patient was previously treated for colon cancer. After surgery during chemotherapy signs as severe vertigo and bilateral sudden hearing loss occurred.

Carotid sheath-like foreign body in the neck.

In otolaryngology practice, we see young children who have inserted a foreign body (FB), which is usually found at home, into their ears or nose. Uncommon complications of an ingested FB are penetration and migration into the neck. Interestingly, among such FBs, sharp fish bones are the most commonly observed in Turkey.

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of the parotid gland recurring 6 times within 12 years.

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a rare neoplasm of low to intermediate malignant potential. It can occur in any location where follicular dendritic cells reside, and nearly all the cases reported in clinical notes have occurred as primary lymph node tumors. Carcinosarcoma or true malignant mixed tumor of the salivary gland is a tumor composed of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements.

[Lipoma of the cerebellopontine angle: two cases report and review of literature].

Here we report two cases with cerebellopontine angle lipoma. Cerebellopontine angle lipomas previously reported in the literature were reviewed. The review of the literature revealed the condition is more prevalent in women.

Management of paragangliomas in otolaryngology practice: review of a 7-year experience.

Background And Aims: Paragangliomas of the head and neck are highly vascular lesions originating from paraganglionic tissue located at the carotid bifurcation (carotid body tumors), along the vagus nerve (vagal paragangliomas), and in the jugular fossa and tympanic cavity (jugulotympanic paragangliomas) and should be considered in the evaluation of all lateral neck masses. The aim of this study is to review an institutional experience in the management of these tumors.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-six patients with 27 paragangliomas were treated in our institution during a period of 7 years (2000-2007).

Huge arteriovenous malformation in masseter muscle.

Arteriovenous malformation is a tumor characterized by direct connection between an artery and vein without capillaries in-between, and it is commonly located intracranially. Intramuscular arteriovenous malformations are rare in the head and neck region. Less than 1% of the vascular tumors are localized in a muscle, 15% of them are in the head and neck muscles.

Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (Masson lesion) of the hypopharynx and larynx.

Masson lesion is characterized by a benign intravascular papillary hyperplasia and subsequent thrombosis. Clinically, this lesion can be misdiagnosed as mucocele, hemangioma, Kaposi sarcoma, angiosarcoma, pyogenic granuloma, and several other lesions. In this article, we report a case of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia of the hypopharynx and larynx, which caused dysphagia in an 18-year-old female patient.

Unusual extension of the first branchial cleft anomaly.

First branchial cleft is the only branchial structure that persists as the external ear canal, while all other clefts are resorbed. Incomplete obliteration and the degree of closure cause the varied types of first branchial cleft anomalies. They were classified based on the anatomical and histological features.

Laryngeal cancer: in relation to oxidative stress.

This study was designed to investigate the oxidative stress parameters in laryngeal cancer and cancer-free adjacent tissues. Lipid peroxidation end product and the endogenous antioxidant components-CuZn superoxide dismutase (CuZn SOD) glutathione peroxidase (GSH Px), glutathione reductase (GSSG Rd) and glutathione (GSH)-were analysed by spectrophotometric and kinetic methods. Laryngeal cancer tissue exhibited higher lipid peroxidation than cancer free adjacent tissue.