[Ruptured pexis after supracricoid partial laryngectomy: a series of 5 cases].

Objectives: Supracricoid partial laryngectomies have a rare but a specific complication which is the rupture of the pexy. After cricohyoidoepiglottopexy or cricohyoidopexy, a separation can appear between the hyoid bone and the cricoid cartilage. Our objective was to define how to treat and to prevent this complication.

[Major orbital complications of acute maxillary sinusitis of dental aetiology].

Objectives: To demonstrate the importance of searching for a dental aetiology when confronted with an orbital cellulitis secondary to an acute unilateral maxillary sinusitis and to diagnose and treat as soon as possible in order to avoid visual sequelae.

Case Report: Two cases are presented. The first case of a 35 year-old man who was diagnosed and treated late, for an orbital abscess secondary to a sinusitis of dental origin.

[Endonasal endoscopic approach in the treatment of sino-nasal inverted papillomas].

Introduction: Sino-nasal inverted papilloma is a rare benign tumor of the nasal fossa and the paranasal sinuses for which the successful surgical treatment by an endonasal approach has been corroborated in the literature. Nevertheless, the authors aim in this study to evaluate the advantages and the limits of this approach, to analyse its failures and its recurrences, and to define the indications for using it with the external or dissimulated approach.

Material And Methods: 42 patients presenting with a sino-nasal inverted papilloma and treated surgically over a ten year period were included in this retrospective study.

[Pseudoaneurysm of the internal carotid artery revelated by epistaxis: report of two cases].

Objectives: Pseudoaneurysms of the carotid artery are a rare but serious cause of epistaxis. They can be rapidly life-threatening. Usually resulting of a surgery or a traumatism, pseudoaneurysms can express themselves by recurrent epistaxis.

[Treatment of simple snoring by radiofrequency velar coblation].

Objectives: Short- and long-term evaluation of the efficacy and safety of radiofrequency velar coblation for simple snoring.

Material And Methods: From February 2000 to May 2004, 175 patients underwent a single radiofrequency session for velar coblation. All patients suffered from snoring without sleep apnea.

[Ambulatory surgery of otosclerosis: retrospective study of 102 cases].

A retrospective study of 102 selected patients operated for otosclerosis (34 outpatient surgery, 68 hospitalised), having all of them the inclusion criteria of the ambulatory surgery, treated as outpatient in a traditional health sector or hospitalised, depending on their own choice, has been lead. We analysed the results of the pure tone audiometric tests two to six months after surgery. No significative difference was found between the two groups on audiometric results as for the postoperative complications.