Free middle turbinate mucosal graft reconstruction after primary endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery.

The objective is to assess whether free middle turbinate (FMT) graft reconstruction, after endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery, combines an acceptably low post-operative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak rate with acceptable rhinological morbidity. This study identified 50 patients who underwent endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery by the senior author in our teaching hospital between May 2011 and June 2012. FMT graft reconstruction was used in 32 cases.

Can early second-look tympanoplasty reduce the rate of conversion to modified radical mastoidectomy?

Conclusions: Combined approach tympanoplasty (CAT) allows for successful treatment of cholesteatoma with rates of recurrent and residual disease comparable to open mastoid surgery. Early timing of second-look procedures allows easier removal of any recurrent or residual disease, which reduces the conversion rate to open mastoidectomy.

Objectives: The aims of the study were to report the rates of recurrent and residual cholesteatoma following primary CAT surgery and to report the rate of conversion to a modified radical mastoidectomy.

An assessment of the validity of tympanometry compared to myringotomy performed under a nitrous oxide-free general anaesthetic.

To assess the validity of tympanometry as a test for the presence of middle ear effusion using a 'gold-standard' of myringotomy performed after a nitrous oxide-free general anaesthetic, we performed a prospective validity study comparing tympanometry traces obtained immediately pre-operatively from patients undergoing grommet insertion, with the otomicroscopic findings at myringotomy. Nitrous oxide was omitted from the anaesthetic gaseous mixture as it has been reported to displace middle ear effusions. One hundred and seventy-two patients (aged 1.

Middle meningeal artery hemorrhage: an incorrect name.

Extradural hemorrhage is most commonly assumed to result from a middle meningeal artery rupture. This article challenges that assumption. The meningeal vasculature of 29 cadaveric specimens was examined macroscopically and microscopically at the level of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone and foramen spinosum.