Ear, Nose and Throat Journal articles from June 2007

Ear, Nose and Throat Journal archives from June 2007

Metabolic-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss and increased noise vulnerability.(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... Vulnerability to the acquisition of a noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) weighs heavily on our society, especially on those in the hearing and speech fields. Earlier this year, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the...

Glomus tympanicum.(OTOSCOPIC CLINIC)(Disease/Disorder overview)
June 1, 2007... A 24-year-old woman presented with a 3-year history of left aural fullness and pulsatile tinnitus. She denied hearing loss, vertigo, and otalgia. Her personal history was negative for relevant head trauma and ear infection, and she had no...

Endoscopic view of a long-term inferior meatal antrostomy.(RHINOSCOPIC CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... A 70-year-old man sought treatment for postnasal drainage. He had undergone sinus surgery 33 years earlier. At that time, inferior meatal antrostomies were performed without stripping of the maxillary sinus mucosa. The natural ostia of the...

Vocal fold scar/sulcus vocalis.(LARYNGOSCOPIC CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... A 49-year-old man, a professional voice user, presented with complaints of vocal fatigue, instability after prolonged voice use, and a decrease in the range and fullness of his voice. He could not recall any sudden voice loss or prolonged...

Sinonasal polyps.(PATHOLOGY CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... Sinonasal polyps are caused by a multitude of factors. The most common causes are repeated bouts of sinusitis, allergy, vasomotor rhinitis, infectious rhinosinusitis, and asthma. Less often, they occur in association with diabetes mellitus,...

Nasal cavernous hemangioma.(IMAGING CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... Although soft-tissue hemangiomas are relatively common in the head and neck, they appear infrequently in the sinonasal cavity. (1) Sometimes intranasal hemangiomas produce bony changes or destruction of the nasal bones and septum; this makes...

Radiation-induced osteosarcoma of the maxillary sinus.(HEAD AND NECK CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... A 41-year-old man presented with an osteosarcoma involving the right maxillary sinus. The patient had a history of a right maxillary embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma that had been treated with chemoradiation 8 years earlier; this suggested a current...

ENG, sinusoidal vertical-axis rotation, and otoacoustic emissions testing in a man whose disabling dizziness had culminated in forced retirement.(AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR MEDICINE CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... A 51-year-old ex-policeman presented with a considerable history of vestibular symptoms. Four years earlier, he had awoken in the middle of the night with rotary vertigo, nausea, and vomiting. For the next 2 weeks, these symptoms occurred on...

Distal esophageal spasm.(DYSPHAGIA CLINIC)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... A 42-year-old man presented to the Center for Voice and Swallowing with symptoms of intermittent dysphagia and substernal chest pain. Cardiac causes of the chest pain had been excluded prior to consultation. Transnasal esophagoscopy revealed...

HCPCS codes.(PRACTICE MANAGEMENT CLINIC)
June 1, 2007... The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes are level II codes that provide practitioners with the terminology and other information needed to bill for some of the supplies and products we use during patient care (figure)....

Long-term follow-up of a multiloculated arachnoid cyst of the middle cranial fossa.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Arachnoid cysts are benign intracranial lesions that are typically diagnosed incidentally. We describe the case of a 56-year-old man who presented with a multiloculated arachnoid cyst of the middle cranial fossa that extended into...

Eosinophilic granuloma: bilateral temporal bone involvement.(Disease/Disorder overview)
June 1, 2007... Abstract Eosinophilic granuloma is an uncommon condition that is characterized by unifocal or multifocal osteolytic lesions that often affect the skull. Unilateral lesions of the temporal bone are not uncommon, but bilateral temporal bone...

Management of a type II nasoethmoid orbital fracture and near-penetration of the intracranial cavity with transnasal canthopexy.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Nasoethmoid orbital fractures are perhaps the most complicated aspect of craniomaxillofacial trauma. Involvement of the medial canthal tendon markedly increases the complexity of the repair We report a case of type II nasoethmoid...

Dislocation of the turbinate: a rare complication of middle turbinate surgery.
June 1, 2007... Abstract We describe a rare complication of turbinate surgery--dislocation of the turbinate--in a woman who had undergone surgical treatment for nasal obstruction 10 years earlier. Removal of the displaced yet still-viable turbinate...

Cholesteatoma of the maxillary sinus.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Cholesteatoma of the maxillary sinus is a rare condition, but it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any slowly expanding lesion of the maxillary sinus. Because the keratinizing squamous epithelium continues to...

Schwannoma of the tonsil.(Disease/Disorder overview)
June 1, 2007... Abstract Between 25 and 48% of schwannomas have been reported to occur in the head and neck region; the acoustic nerve is involved in most cases. Schwannomas arising in the tonsil are extremely uncommon. We report a case of tonsillar...

Burkitt's lymphoma of the base of the tongue: a case report and review of the literature.
June 1, 2007... Abstract Burkitt's lymphoma is a highly aggressive, mature B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that is rare outside Africa. We report a case of Burkitt's lymphoma presenting as a rapidly expanding tongue-base mass that caused airway obstruction...

Cabinets for endoscopes.(PRODUCT MARKETPLACE)
June 1, 2007... InnerSpace is offering three new cabinets for storing small-diameter flexible endoscopes: two freestanding cabinets (powder-coated metal or melamine) and one wall-mounted, powder-coated metal cabinet. The cabinets house up to five...

Sinus medications.(PRODUCT MARKETPLACE)
June 1, 2007... Aerosol Science's pharmacy unit provides aerosolized medications (antibiotics, antifungals, and steroids) for the sinuses through its Better Science/Better Service model. Aerosol Science Laboratories, Inc., works with all drug benefit plans,...

Nasal sponges.(PRODUCT MARKETPLACE)
June 1, 2007... Ultracell Medical Technologies is a leading supplier of surgical sponge products for the ENT surgical specialty. The company offers UltraPack[TM], a layered nasal pack made of ultra-fine-pore PVA, which minimizes tissue ingrowth. Its thickness...

Middle ear implant.(PRODUCT MARKETPLACE)
June 1, 2007... The VIBRANT Soundbridge[R] is the first implantable middle ear hearing device approved by the FDA for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss. Now available in the United States from MED-EL Corporation, this device is for adults who have...