Eustachian Tube Dysfunction in Children With Adenoid Hypertrophy: The Role of Adenoidectomy for Improving Ear Ventilation.

Introduction: To our knowledge, few papers have addressed preoperative evaluation of the impact of adenoid hypertrophy (AH) on the pathogenesis of eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) in children with otitis media with effusion (OME).

Aim: The aim of this study was 2-fold: first, to evaluate ETD using tubomanometry and Eustachian Tube Score 7 (ETS-7), in a group of children having AH; second, to assess the clinical impact of adenoidectomy on the ETD of these patients.

Methods: Fifty patients, aged 4 to 15 years, underwent adenoidectomy based on various parameters: size of the adenoids causing canal obstruction (grades 1-4), the presence of OME, and recurrent episodes of rhinosinusitis.

Solitary juvenile xanthogranuloma of the hypopharynx. Clinico-pathologic study in a child with β-Thalassemia Major and Cutaneous Mastocytosis.

Juvenile Xanthogranuloma (JXG), the most common pediatric non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis, may rarely occur in association with Neurofibromatosis (types 1 and 2), Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia and Cutaneous Mastocytosis (CM) and, morphologically, mimics Erdheim-Chester Disease tissue lesions and ALK-positive histiocytosis. We describe a 4-year-old girl with Beta-Thalassemia Major who developed an hypopharyngeal BRAFV600E- and ALK-negative JXG and CM. JXG has been rarely reported in the aerodigestive tract and in association with CM.

Primary school children often underestimate their nasal obstruction.

Background: No consensus has ever been reached about the correlation between nasal resistance and the subjective sensation of nasal patency. The aim of the present study was to better de ne whether primary school and secondary school aged children correctly estimate their nasal obstruction.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred eighty four children (168 males and 116 female) aged between 6 and 14 years (9.