Is septoplasty effective rhinogenic headache in patients with isolated contact point between inferior turbinate and septal spur?

Background: Rhinogenic headache is a painful sensation in the head and face due to intranasal contact point without any mass or inflammatory findings. Surgery is recommended in patients with nasal obstruction; however the approach in case of isolated mucosal contact point that does not cause obstruction is controversial. Our aim is to observe changes in the severity of headache in patients with isolated mucosal contact point and headache who do not complain of nasal obstruction.

Prevalence of otitis media with effusion among primary school age-children and etiopathogenic examination.

A prevalence study was carried out in order to look into the etiopathogenic relation of otitis media with effusion (OME) in primary school-age children. The study included ENT examination and a questionnaire that was carried out in 4 randomly selected schools on 1,165 children. 143 of the cases (12.

Topical levobupivacaine efficacy in pain control after functional endoscopic sinus surgery.

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out the efficacy of a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) sponge (Merocel Kennedy; Medtronic Xomed, Jacksonville, Florida) sinus pack soaked with levobupivacaine hydrochloride to control postoperative pain and analgesic need following functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).

Study Design: The study was designed as a prospective, double-blind, randomized, controlled study. Forty-one patients who underwent FESS were included in the analysis.

Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage.

Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male who took heroin several times nasally presented with massive nasal bleeding.

Maxillary sinus nonodontogenic myxoma extending into the sphenoid sinus and pterygopalatine fossa: case report.

Myxomas are benign mesenchymal tumors of uncertain etiology. They can arise from odontogenic tissue, as well as from the sinonasal tract and from the facial and temporal bones, apparently from nonodontogenic mesenchyme. Although histologically benign, myxomas are locally invasive.

Hearing evaluation in preeclamptic patients.

Objective: To evaluate the pathological effects of preeclampsia on hearing levels in pregnant women by pure-tone audiometry and brainstem auditory-evoked potentials (BAEPs).

Methods: Both ears in 30 preeclamptic patients and 38 women with uncomplicated pregnancy matched by maternal age and gestational age were investigated based on BAEPs and pure-tone audiometry. Hearing thresholds were within the normal ranges in all subjects prior to pregnancy.

Is routine histopathological analysis of nasal polyposis specimens necessary?

Our objective is to evaluate the incidence of unexpected pathologies in routine nasal polyposis specimens and necessity for histopathological evaluation of nasal polyps. A retrospective chart review of all patients who underwent nasal polyposis surgery between January 2004 and June 2010 were reviewed. The patients were divided into two groups.

A rhinolith surrounded by a nasal polyp.

Rhinoliths are uncommon mineralized nasal mass in children and adolescents. We reported a case of unilateral rhinolith that presented as a nasal polyp. A 29-year-old woman who had right-sided nasal purulent discharge, nasal obstruction, intermittent epistaxis, and posterior nasal drip for 6 months was admitted to our department.

The effect of ibuprofen on postoperative hemorrhage following tonsillectomy in children.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of ibuprofen on hemorrhage after tonsillectomy in children. All charts of children, who underwent tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy, were reviewed. The age at the time of surgery ranged between 3 and 16 years (mean age = 7.

Combined aplasia of sphenoid, frontal, and maxillary sinuses accompanied by ethmoid sinus hypoplasia.

Objective: To report the case of a woman who had combined aplasia of sphenoid, frontal, and maxillary sinuses accompanied by ethmoid sinus hypoplasia.

Methods And Results: A 47-year-old woman presented with complaints of headache, nasal obstruction, and postnasal drainage. She had no previous history of either facial trauma or systemic diseases affecting the skeletal system.

Efficacy of topical levobupivacaine in control of postoperative pain after septoplasty.

Objective: To search the efficacy of using Merocele (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) soaked with 5 mL of levobupivacaine hydrocloride as a nasal pack in control of postoperative pain after septoplasty.

Design: The study was designed as a prospective, double-blind, randomized, controlled study. Forty-one patients who underwent septoplasty operation were included in the analysis.

Evaluation and management of antrochoanal polyps.

Antrochoanal polyps (ACPs) are benign polypoid lesions arising from the maxillary antrum and they extend into the choana. They occur more commonly in children and young adults, and they are almost always unilateral. The etiopathogenesis of ACPs is not clear.

The use of tacker and arthroscopy cannules in SILS cholecystectomy.

Background: The invasiveness of laparoscopic cholecystectomy was further minimized by reducing the number of incisions with the introduction of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) cholecystectomy. In order to solve the challenges posed by SILS cholecystectomy, an increasing number of techniques have been reported with the advent of new surgical instruments and refinements to existing technology. We describe, in this article, two new techniques that utilize existing instrumentations: an access and a retraction technique.

Analgesic efficacy of topical tramadol in the control of postoperative pain in children after tonsillectomy.

Purpose: Pain control after tonsillectomy is still a controversial issue. Topical approaches have the advantage of pain control with good patient acceptability. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of topical tramadol on postoperative pain and morbidity in children undergoing tonsillectomy.

Application of laparoscopy in the management of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is considered obscure when it persists or recurs after negative endoscopy. Small bowel lesions account for approximately 1-fourth of cases of obscure GI bleeding. These lack specific clinical symtoms and signs, and tend to be inaccessible to routine examinations.

Myringosclerosis after tympanostomy tube insertion: relation with tube retention time and gender.

Objective: To determine relationship between myringosclerosis and tube retention time and sex in children with chronic otitis media with effusion who were treated with tympanostomy tube insertion. Also, the relationship between myringosclerosis both sex and initial age of tube insertion were investigated.

Methods: A total of 101 children (195 ears) were reviewed.

Shepard grommet tympanostomy tube complications in children with chronic otitis media with effusion.

The objective of this study was to determine tympanostomy tube complications in children with chronic otitis media with effusion who were treated with Shepard grommet tympanostomy tube insertion. This tube type was selected as it is the most commonly used one in our clinic. The medical records of 162 ears of 87 children (52 male and 35 female) were reviewed retrospectively.

Otitis media with effusion: recurrence after tympanostomy tube extrusion.

Objective: The incidence rate of recurrence of otitis media with effusion (OME) in children after tympanostomy tube extrusion and the relationship between recurrence and tube retention time was investigated. Also relationship between recurrence rate and initial age of tube insertion was analysed.

Study Design: A retrospective case series of patients who had tympanostomy tube insertion.

Detection of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity with transient evoked otoacoustic emission test before pure tone audiometer.

Our aim was to investigate cisplatin ototoxicity with transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE) test before it is seen with pure tone audiometer. In our study, we compared the hearing of the patients who are receiving 100 mg/m(2) 4-cycle cisplatin for lung cancer, with pure tone audiometer and transient evoked otoacoustic emission test in 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000 Hz. We found 55% hearing decrease with pure tone audiometer in patients that are receiving 100 mg/m(2) 4-cycle cisplatin for lung cancer.

The effects of topical levobupivacaine on morbidity in pediatric tonsillectomy patients.

Objective: To reduce the post-tonsillectomy morbidity by swab soaked with 5 ml levobupivacaine hydroclorur (25 mg/10 ml).

Study Design: A double-blind prospective randomized controlled clinical study.

Methods: In this randomized double-blind study in group I (30 children, mean age 7.