[Microdebrider-assisted partial turbinoplasty: technique and results in perennial non-allergic rhinitis].

Aim Of The Study: To assess objective and subjective outcomes in patients with perennial non-allergic rhinitis who had undergone endoscopic microdebrider-assisted inferior turbinoplasty.

Patients And Methods: Twenty patients (13 men and 7 women; age range, 15-64 years; mean age, 42.6 years) were included in a prospective study.

[Evolution of facial nerve prognosis in vestibular schwannoma surgery by translabyrinthine approach].

Objectives Of The Study: To evaluate our results on the postoperative facial function, its pre and preoperative predictive factors, and the application of the surgical technique to lesions of decreasing size.

Patients And Methods: A series of 248 patients operated of an unilateral vestibular schwannoma has been reviewed. We have compared the results gathered over two periods corresponding to the evolution of our surgical technique since 1998.

[Free temporoparietal osteomuscular flap for cranioplasty].

Purpose: Advances in composite materials for craniofacial reconstruction surgery has tended to limit indications for osteomuscular free flaps which nevertheless must be used for certain septic patients. The purpose of this report was to illustrate the usefulness of the free temoroparietal osteomuscular flap in this particular situation.

Case Report: A 47-year-old man underwent surgical repair of an aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery complicated by acute hydrocephaly treated by external then ventriculoperitoneal bypass.