An Interesting Case of Gradenigo Syndrome.

Gradenigo syndrome is a rare complication of acute otitis media infections, and early diagnosis and treatment of the condition are imperative. In this report, we present a case of a 22-month-old girl who developed acute, acquired esotropia associated with recurrent episodes of otitis media, which resolved after antibiotic treatment. To our knowledge, our patient is one of the youngest children reported in the literature to present with presumed Gradenigo syndrome and the only case of recurrent episodes of acquired esotropia and concurrent otitis media within the short time span of 1 month.

Lack of relationship between cigarette smoking and alcohol use with dysplasia grade in ocular surface squamous neoplasia.

Objective: To evaluate smoking and alcohol use as risk factors for higher-grade dysplasia in a population of patients with histopathologically proven ocular surface squamous neoplasia.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective chart review of data extracted from a database comprising demographic information and medical diagnosis information based on International Classification of Disease codes. Outcome measures were analyzed using the Wilcoxon two-sided test, a non-parametric -test.

Pediatric Playground-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments in the United States.

This study analyzed pediatric playground-related injuries data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. An estimated 5 025 440 children <18 years were treated in US emergency departments for playground-related injuries during 1990-2012, averaging 218 497 children annually. The average patient age was 6.