Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol
July 2024
The presence of foreign bodies in the airways remain a diagnostic challenge to healthcare professionals. They can become life threatening emergencies that require immediate intervention or go unnoticed for weeks and even months. Prevention is best but early recognition remains a critical factor in treatment of foreign body inhalation in children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo compare the outcome of ossiculoplasty using 'lenticular process of incus replacement prosthesis [LPIRP]' with that of 'conventional autologous tissue ossiculoplasty techniques' in patients with lenticular process of incus necrosis [LPI] in terms of: 1. Hearing results. 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
August 2013
Meningioma is the most common nonglial intracranial neoplasm, arising from meningocytes (arachnoid cap cells) of arachnoid granulation tissue and constitutes 15-20 % of all intracranial tumors. Approximately 6-17 % of all meningiomas can be found in extracranial or extra spinal sites. The head and neck is the most frequent location of extraneuraxial meningiomas, commonly seen as an extension of primary intracranial tumor (secondary extracranial meningioma).
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