Scalp as split thickness skin graft donor site for congenital atresia repair.

Objective: Describe the use of the scalp as a donor site for split thickness skin grafts in otologic surgery.

Materials And Methods: Review of the literature with detailed description of surgical technique and authors' experience.

Results: One hundred and forty- four scalp split thickness skin grafts were obtained between 2007 and 2011.

Acellular porcine intestinal submucosa as fascial graft in an animal model: applications for revision tympanoplasty.

Objective: To demonstrate regeneration of muscle fascia appropriate for future harvest with the use of acellular porcine intestinal submucosa in a rat model.

Study Design: Animal cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary care academic medical center.

Management of regional metastases in well-differentiated thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancer represents the most common endocrine cancer, and rates have been increasing over the last 3 decades. The treatment of cervical metastases in well differentiated thyroid cancer remains in evolution. Many questions require further resolution.

Idiopathic temporal bone encephaloceles in the obese patient.

Objectives: Our aims were to introduce temporal bone encephalocele (TBE) to the differential diagnosis of persistent middle ear effusion, cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea, or chronic otitis media in obese adults and to demonstrate the basic pathophysiologic principles of morbid obesity as it may lead to the cascade of increased intra-abdominal pressure, increased central venous pressure, benign increased intracranial pressure, and TBE.

Methods: A retrospective review of the medical records was performed to determine the location, nature, and etiology of the encephaloceles identified at our institution from 1989 to 2005. Body mass index was calculated from the patient height and weight data.

Pediatric temporal bone fractures in a rural population.

Objective: To examine pediatric temporal bone fractures in a rural population.

Study Design And Setting: A retrospective chart review of pediatric temporal bone fractures between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2000, at a rural academic medical center.

Results: A total of 108 patients were identified.