[Improvement of cochleovestibular function in chronic non-inflammatory perilymphatic fistulas of the labyrinth windows: cases from practice].

After a brief discussion of the problem of idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss and perilymphatic fistulas of the labyrinth windows, audiometric tests are identified that are informative for the preoperative diagnosis of the latter. Taking into account the own results of surgical treatment, attention is drawn to the feasibility of a wider use of exploratory tympanotomy in cases of suspected occurrence of perilymphatic fistulas of the labyrinth windows.

[The rhinophyma through the prism of time].

One of the frequent causes of a significant increase in the external nose, forming a persistent deformity of the face, as well as leading to a non-standard clinical picture is rhinophyma disease. The article considers some historical data, epidemiology, peculiarities of pathogenesis, as well as the basics of surgical treatment tactics along with possible preventive measures against rhinophyma. At present, the treatment of this pathology presents great difficulties.

[Clinical and diagnostic observations of a complicated course of chronic otitis media, cholesteatoma in children].

Formation of labyrinth fistulas and destruction of the facial nerve canal in children with middle ear cholesteatoma is rare. Data of children with cholesteatoma of the middle ear, operated in the ENT department of MONIKI, is analyzed. Several clinical observations of multiple-aged patients with the presence of cholesteatoma intra-temporal complications are presented.

[Morphological marker of tumor progression in laryngeal cancer].

Dynamic observation of 32 patients with laryngeal cancer, treated with radiotherapy and combination therapy, was performed using diagnostic technology "Litos-system", including the definition of serum morphotypes by marginal dehydration of biological fluids. In nine of them, on the background of the treatment, there was continued growth of the tumor. In the blood serum seven of nine patients had special microspheroliths, characterized by the presence of "wavy" structures.