Effectiveness of Behavioral and Pharmacological Smoking Cessation Treatment in Patients with Failed Attempt at Quitting with E-cigarettes.

Objective: The tobacco industry has introduced electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) as a less harmful substitute to cigarettes and as an aid to smoking cessation. This study aimed to evaluate the success of evidence-based pharmacological treatments and behavioral/cognitive training in patients who failed to quit smoking with e-cigarettes.

Material And Methods: A total of 109 consecutive patients with failed attempts at smoking cessation by e-cigarettes were admitted.

Evaluation of postoperative patient satisfaction after covering the nasal dorsum with upper lateral cartilage: "upper lateral closing".

Introduction: Following nasal hump removal during septorhinoplasty, the middle vault should be reconstructed to avoid functional and esthetic problems. Middle vault reconstruction, however, may result in widening of the middle vault and may need a camouflage graft to cover dorsal irregularities.

Objective: To present the results of reconstructing the middle vault with a technique that covers the nasal dorsum with upper lateral cartilage, from the viewpoint of patient satisfaction.

Positron emission tomography evaluation of sinonasal inverted papilloma and related conditions: a prospective clinical study.

Objectives: This study aims to determine whether there is a difference between inverted papilloma (IP) and nasal polyp, and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with regard to fluorodeoxyglucose uptake.

Patients And Methods: Between September 2007 and May 2014, positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT) images of 27 patients (20 males, 7 females; mean age 53.4 years; range 18 to 74 years), with unilateral polyposis diagnosed on examination and tomographic scans of paranasal sinus were obtained.

Huge Neck Masses Causing Respiratory Distress in Neonates: Two Cases of Congenital Cervical Teratoma.

Congenital cervical teratomas are rare and usually large enough to cause respiratory distress in the neonatal period. We present two cases of congenital huge cystic neck masses in which distinguishing cervical cystic hygroma and congenital cystic teratoma was not possible through radiologic imaging techniques. Experience with the first case, which was initially diagnosed and treated as cystic hygroma by injection sclerotherapy, led to early suspicion and surgery in the second case.

How best is to discontinue postmenopausal hormone therapy: immediate or tapered?

Background: To evaluate the differences between the immediate and tapered cessation protocols of hormone therapy in terms of recurrence of menopausal symptoms.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective, randomized clinical study 70 consecutive patients in whom hormone therapy was no longer preferred were recruited from the menopause clinic of a university hospital and rank randomized into two groups. In group 1 (n=35) hormone therapy was immediately discontinued and in group 2 (n=35) the medication was tapered.