Complications in Cochlear Implantation at the Clinical Center of Vojvodina.

Introduction: The first modern cochlear implantation in Serbia was performed on November 26, 2002 at the Center for Cochlear Implantation of the Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Clinical Center of Vojvodina.

Objective: The aim of the paper is the analysis of intraoperative and postoperative complications. Major complications include those resulting in the necessity for revision surgery, explantation, reimplantation, severe disease or even lethal outcomes.

Techniques of the Tympanomastoidectomy with Reconstruction of the Posterior Bone Wall of the External Auditory Canal.

A combined tympanoplasty method, the mobile-bridge tympanoplasty, has been applied at the Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases in Novi Sad since 1998. Mobile-bridge tympanoplasty is performed at our Clinic by applying Feldmann's procedure utilizing a microsurgical oscillating saw. It is a combination of closed and open techniques for surgical treatment of middle ear diseases.

Carcinoma developing in a branchial cyst.

Introduction: The malignant transformation of the branchial cysts epithelium is rare and it represents separate entity called branchiogenic carcinoma.

Case Report: A 55-year-old male with fluctuating mass localized on the right side of the neck, was admitted to the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, General hospital in Vrbas where cystic tumor 3 cm in its greatest dimension with friable, dark red wall below the front edge of the sternocleidomastoid muscle was revealed. The wall of the tumor was composed of lymphoid tissue with germinal centers.

Functional hearing results in patients with otosclerosis before and after stapedotomy.

Surgical treatment of otosclerosis with stapedotomy leads to the improvement of subjective and objective problems in patients with otosclerosis. A prospective study included patients who had been treated surgically at the Department for Ear, Nose and Throat in Novi Sad in the period from September 2006 to September 2007. On the basis of the appropriate diagnostic procedures, 33 patients were diagnosed with otosclerosis.