[Minimal-invasive Cochlear Implantation: Surgical feasibility and first clinical experience].

Objective: Cochlear implantation is a standard procedure for rehabilitation of profound hearing loss and single sided deafness. Audiologic criteria for implantation have been extended with the growing experience. Less traumatic access has been developed at the same time.

Revisional surgery after failed esophagogastric myotomy for achalasia: successful esophageal preservation.

Background: Treatment failure with recurrent dysphagia after Heller myotomy occurs in fewer than 10 % of patients, most of whom will seek repeat surgical intervention. These reoperations are technically challenging, and as such, there exist only limited reports of reoperation with esophageal preservation.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients who sought operative intervention from March 1998 to December 2014 for obstructed swallowing after esophagogastric myotomy.

Significant pressure differences between solid-state and water-perfused systems in lower esophageal sphincter measurement.

Objective: High-resolution manometry of the esophagus has gained worldwide acceptance, using different solid-state catheters. Thus, normal values for lower esophageal sphincter (LES) resting pressure in suspected gastroesophageal reflux disease patients have been established using water-perfused manometry. These standard values are commonly applied using also solid-state techniques, although they have never been compared before.

Insights gained from symptom evaluation of esophageal motility disorders: a review of 4,215 patients.

Background/aims: Achalasia (Ach), diffuse esophageal spasm (DES), nutcracker esophagus (NE), and nonspecific motility disorder (NSMD) are described primary esophageal body motility disorders; however, their clinical symptom correlation is poorly understood. The aim of this study is to examine the association between a patient's presenting symptoms and their manometric diagnosis.

Methods: Manometric findings and reported symptoms of all patients undergoing esophageal manometry at the Creighton University Medical Center were prospectively entered in a database.

[A rare cause of a cervical lymphadenopathy].

We report on a 15-year-old female patient with a slow-growing, mildly painful swelling on her neck, without any signs of inflammation or any general symptoms. Sonographic findings included two enlarged lymph nodes with hilar markings evident. Based on the histology, Castleman's disease of the hyaline vascular type was ultimately diagnosed.