Is it necessary to do temporal bone computed tomography of the internal auditory canal in tinnitus with normal hearing?

Objective: To investigate the compression of the vestibulocochlear nerve in the etiology of the tinnitus in the normal hearing ears with temporal bone computed tomography scans.

Methods: A prospective nonrandomized study of 30 bilateral tinnitus and 30 normal hearing patients enrolled in this study.

Results: A total of 60 patients (ages ranged from 16 to 87) were included.

The role of mometasone furoate nasal spray in the treatment of adenoidal hypertrophy in the adolescents: a prospective, randomized, cross-over study.

Aim of this work is to find out whether the symptoms attributable to adenoid hypertrophy in adolescents may be treated with intranasal mometasone furoate (MF) application. To learn if adenoid hypertrophy in adolescents may decrease in size with intranasal MF. A prospective, double blind, randomized, cross-over study was conducted in 28 subjects (12-18 years) with adenoidal hypertrophy.