Long term effects of palatal implant method in adult patients with simple snoring and obstructive sleep-apnea syndrome.

Objective: To investigate the long term effect and reliability of palatal implant surgery, which is a minimally invasive technique, used in simple snoring and obstructive sleep-apnea syndrome types based on objective and subjective data.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-eight patients were included prospectively in this study. It has been possible to obtain preoperative and postoperative polysomnography results in 59 patients.

The morphological findings of malleus and incus in a case of Marfan's syndrome.

In Marfan's syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder of hereditary origin, collagenous tissue development and bone synthesis are generally altered in addition to the occurrence of many systemic deformities. External ear, stapes, and vestibular aqueduct pathologies are reported as some of the otological deformities. However, the malleus and incus pathologies of the ear are not reported in any study.

Spindle cell lipoma of the hypopharynx.

Objective: We report a rare case of a spindle cell lipoma with atypical clinical course.

Case Report: A 51 year old female patient referred to our clinic with feeling of mass in the throat she had had for two years. The patient described difficulty in swallowing.

[Evaluation of loss of the chorda tympani function after myringoplasty].

Objectives: Loss of taste function was studied pre- and postoperatively in patients who underwent myringoplasty.

Patients And Methods: Thirty-two patients who were diagnosed with chronic otitis media and underwent myringoplasty between May 2007 and May 2009 were included in the study. Regional taste test was performed preoperatively and two weeks after the operation in all patients planned to undergo myringoplasty.

Radiofrequency treatment for inferior turbinate hypertrophy.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a technique which causes a reduction in tissue amount using ablation by high-frequency current. Beside other surgical tools, RFA has become quite popular over the past decade. Hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate is a common cause of chronic nasal obstruction.