Advanced oxidation protein product level in children with chronic otitis media with effusion.

Objective: To determine the level of advanced oxidation protein products (AOPPs) in children with chronic otitis media with effusion (COME), in an effort to elucidate the multifactorial etiology of this disease.

Methods: This study involved 25 COME patients and 30 healthy children (control group) recruited from the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) and Pediatric Departments, respectively, of the Haseki Research and Training Hospital. In the COME group, blood samples were collected before a middle ear operation, and middle ear fluid was sampled during the operation.

Repair of symptomatic nasoseptal perforations using mucosal regeneration technique with interpositional grafts.

Over the past 60 years, many surgical techniques have been developed for the repair of nasoseptal perforations. This study describes a safe and practical technique involving the 5-layer repair of symptomatic nasoseptal perforations without mucosal flaps. The present study involved 23 patients (17 men and 6 women) who had symptomatic nasoseptal perforations in the Otorhinolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery Department of Haseki Research and Training Hospital.

Neck masses: diagnostic analysis of 630 cases in Turkish population.

Neck masses can be classified into three main categories: congenital, inflammatory and neoplastic. Our aim was to determine the distribution of diagnosis in patients who were followed-up for a neck mass and had undergone surgery for diagnostic indications. Six hundred and thirty cases referred to the Otorhinolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery Department of Haseki Research and Training Hospital between January 2005 and February 2012 with a neck mass who underwent excisional or incisional biopsy to establish a histopathologic diagnosis were retrospectively evaluated.

Antrochoanal polyposis: analysis of 34 cases.

An antrochoanal polyp (ACP) is a benign polypoid lesion originating from the maxillary sinus and extending to the choana. The objective of our study is to assess etiological and associated features of ACPs, and outcome following surgical treatment. Thirty-four patients who had received surgical treatment for ACPs were followed for 35 ± 17.