Pilot Hearing Screening of School-age Children in Lagos, Nigeria.

Objectives: The aim of this pilot study is to assess the prevalence of hearing disorders in school-age children in Lagos, Nigeria.

Methods: The study group consisted of 236 children aged 5 to 11 years old. Children were assessed by otoscopy, transiently evoked otoacoustic emissions, and pure-tone audiometry screening.

Clinicoepidemiology of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in Nigerian.

Objective: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is poorly reported in developing countries. This study aimed at determining the prevalence, aetiology, and comorbid illnesses of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in our center.

Materials And Methods: This was a prevalence hospital-based study of all patients with the diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).

Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair: Assessment of Outcome of Olokun-Olaitan Vermillion Flap Approach.

This study aimed to assess the outcome of our novel free-hand approach. Numerous cleft lip repair techniques exist, all of which involve incisions on skin and excision of tissue. Unilateral cleft lip is the result of failure of migration of orofacial tissues in-utero.

Characteristics and Management of Childhood Tinnitus in a Developing Country.

Objectives: Tinnitus is a commonly neglected otologic symptom among children in developing country. This study aimed at determining the prevalence, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and management of childhood tinnitus in a developing country.

Method: This prospective hospital based study of patients' age 18 years and below with complaints of tinnitus was conducted in Ear, Nose and Throat Department of Ekiti state UniversityTeaching Hospital,Ado Ekiti,Nigeria between April 2016 to March 2018.

Preschool Children Hearing Impairment: Prevalence, Diagnosis and Management in a Developing Country.

Objectives: Preschool children hearing impairment is a common otologic diseases worldwide. The burdens of this preventable condition can be reduced in developing country. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence, diagnosis and management of hearing impairment among children less than 5 years seen in our center.

Demography, types, outcome and relationship of surgically treated intracranial suppuration complicating chronic suppurative otitis media and bacterial rhinosinusitis.

Introduction: Surgically treated intracranial suppurations (ICS) are uncommon, life-threatening neurosurgical emergencies. They can result from complication of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and bacterial rhinosinusitis (BRS). The objective of this study was to know the frequency of BRS and CSOM and relate it to its rare complication of surgically treated ICS while also describing the demography, type and outcome of ICS that resulted from BRS and CSOM.