Publications by authors named "S Nofz"
Background: Complications caused by osteosynthetic material after cervical spine surgery are rare.
Patient And Method: The case of a 36-year-old patient is reported, who suffered the extrusion of a screw and migration through the hypopharynx after ventral spondylodesis of a cervical spine fracture.
Result: Dysphagia occurred shortly after spinal surgery.
Background: Discussions of the detection of fluorescein in the perilymph after intravenous (IV) administration have been contradictory. Differentiating between the fluorescence of mucosa and fluorescence signals of extravasation or perilymph fistulas seems to be rather difficult.
Patients And Methods: We performed fluorescence endoscopy of the middle ear after IV administration of fluorescein, twice after intrathecal application, in 53 patients suffering functional cochleovestibular disturbances without improvement by infusion therapy or together with a tympanoplasty or tympanotomy.
Background: The sinonasal system is rarely involved in the clinical picture of sarcoidosis. In the absence of pulmonary disease, sinonasal sarcoidosis is extremely rare.
Patients And Methods: Four patients with isolated sarcoidosis of the nose and the sinuses are reported; in one of these patients the histological evidence was found in the mucosa of the nasopharynx.
Background: The healing process after functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) normally takes weeks to months under an intensive therapy regime. Occasionally, symptomatic failures and local problems occur despite extensive follow-up treatment.
Patients And Methods: Over a 3-year period 900 patients underwent FESS in our department.
Rupture of the round window membrane as a special cause of inner ear deafness is widely accepted after changing pressure levels, e.g. in diving.
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