Porcine small intestinal submucosa (SIS) myringoplasty in children: A randomized controlled study.

Introduction: A novel bioactive material for tissue graft, derived from porcine small intestinal mucosa (SIS) has been marketed. This material promotes early vessel growth, provides scaffolding for the remodeling tissues, and is inexpensive and ready-to-use. We evaluated efficacy, safety, and surgery time of SIS myringoplasty, in comparison with autologous temporalis fascia (PTF) repair in children in a prospective, two-group (SIS and PTF) randomized, blinded study at a tertiary-care pediatric institution.

Molecular resonance tonsillectomy in children: comparative study over standard techniques in an 11-year study.

Objectives: Learn the molecular resonance (MR) technology for tonsillectomy. An analysis of outcomes of MR compared to standard cold-knife (CK) and monopolar cautery (MPC) for pediatric tonsillectomy offers new possibilities, lowering postoperative morbidity.

Study Design: Eleven-year, prospective, randomized, 3-group trial.

Stability of osseointegrated bone conduction systems in children: a pilot study.

Objectives: To obtain objective data of bone conduction implant stability and osseointegration in children; to compare in pediatric subjects the stability and osseointegration of the novel TiOblast-coated implant system (BI300) to the previous generation, as-machined model.

Study Design: Multicenter, controlled, nonrandomized, longitudinal, prospective study.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

The new Baha implant: a prospective osseointegration study.

Objectives: To assess stability of a new-design titanium implant (Cochlear Baha BAI300) in bone-anchored hearing aid (Baha) recipients over time.

Study Design And Setting: Prospective case series with planned data collection at a tertiary care institution. Twelve patients who underwent Baha surgery over 12 months were analyzed.

Tonsillectomy in children: a five-factor analysis among three techniques--reporting upon clinical results, anesthesia time, surgery time, bleeding, and cost.

Objectives: Improved technology claims better clinical results for adenotonsillectomy (T&A) in children, and promoters of each technique announce many virtues over one another, year after year. However, cost remains one variable that is not always thoroughly addressed. In this study, monopolar cautery (MPC) T&A was compared with coblation (CAT) and molecular resonance (MR) techniques in a pediatric population.

TriVerse versus molecular resonance-harvested grafts in single-stage Baha surgery.

Objectives: To assess complications occurring in patients with a bone-anchored cochlear stimulator (Baha) following split-thickness skin graft harvested with two surgical modalities: the TriVerse (TV) system and the molecular resonance generator (MR).

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, two-group (TV and MR) study of 24 patients who underwent Baha surgery.

Setting: Tertiary care institution.

Anterior tab flap versus standard underlay myringoplasty in children.

Objectives: Tympanic membrane (TM) perforation closure can present a problem in children, especially in anterior and total perforations, because of the anterior's lack of support for the graft. It was suggested that the anterior tab flap (ATF) myringoplasty, an underlay graft with an anterior tab under the TM annulus, could provide better stability of the graft. We undertook a prospective, randomized, controlled study to compare the ATF myringoplasty with the standard underlay (SU) myringoplasty in children.

Molecular resonance vs. coblation tonsillectomy in children.

Background: Quantum molecular resonance coagulation is an innovative technology that uses molecular resonance to cut and coagulate precisely, cleanly, and hemostatically at low tissue temperature levels. This technology offers a new possibility for tonsillectomy.

Objectives: To compare molecular resonance (MRT) with coblation (CAT) devices for pediatric tonsillectomy.

Contact-diode laser repair of bony choanal atresia: a preliminary report.

Objectives: To demonstrate the use of the contact-diode laser (CDL) at 810 nm wavelength for the transnasal endoscopic repair of bilateral bony choanal (BBCA) in low-weight newborns.

Methods: Prospective study at a tertiary-care pediatric institution of four neonates with BBCA aged 3-5 days, weighing on average 2.34 kg.

Contact diode laser myringotomy for medium-duration middle ear ventilation in children.

Objective: To prospectively compare contact diode laser for myringotomy (CDLM) to myringotomy with tube insertion (M&T) for the surgical management of otitis media with effusion (OME) in children.

Study Design And Setting: Prospective randomized controlled study at a tertiary care pediatric institution.

Methods: Thirty children for whom PE tube insertion was indicated were randomized for treatment by CDLM or by M&T, in order to investigate length of time for middle ear ventilation, and complication rates.

Tympanic membrane healing process and biocompatibility of an innovative absorbable ventilation tube.

Objective: To investigate tympanic membrane healing process and biocompatibility of pressure-equalizing (PE) tubes, made of a novel biodegradable, absorbable material, in an animal model.

Background: Myringotomy and pressure-equalizing tube insertion is a frequent otologic procedure in children. However, results may vary because of the unpredictable extrusion rate of tubes.

Contact diode laser tonsillectomy in children.

Objective: To compare contact diode laser (CDL) tonsillectomy to monopolar cautery (MPC) with regard to pain and other morbidity during recovery.

Study Design And Setting: Single-blind, randomized trial in a tertiary-care pediatric hospital. Tonsillectomy was performed by CDL in 30 children and by MPC in 28.

Contact diode laser myringotomy and mitomycin C in children.

Objective: To investigate the use of contact diode laser myringotomy (C-LAM), combined with topical mitomycin C, as an alternative method for prolonged middle ear ventilation in children with otitis media with effusion.

Study Design And Setting: Prospective study at a tertiary care pediatric institution.

Methods: Fifteen children enrolled in the study.

A new absorbable pressure-equalizing tube.

Objective: We investigated pressure-equalizing (PE) tubes made of biodegradable, absorbable material in an animal model.

Methods: PE tubes, made of poly-bis(ethylanate)phosphazene (PBE) were inserted in 55 ears of 28 Hartley guinea pigs, with survival times of 10, 30, and 60 days after tube insertion. In vivo reactions between the PBE-PE tube and the tympanic membrane (TM) were studied.