HEADACHES DUE TO AURAL DISEASE.

Referrals to neurologists for headaches not due to structural disease.

Patients attending neurological clinics with headaches that proved not to be due to clearly defined structural disease were interviewed before and after the consultation and approximately one year later. Their expectations of the consultation were ill-formed. About two-thirds of the patients had fears about organic disease although few had psychiatric morbidity. These fears were generally dispe...

Headaches due to nasal and paranasal sinus disease.

Sinus infections are much less common today than they were in the preantibiotic era, but they still are overdiagnosed. Acute sinusitis, a relatively uncommon cause of headache, is the result of infection of one or more of the cranial sinuses. Acute sinusitis usually is characterized by purulent discharge in the nasal passages and a pain profile determined by the site of infection. Sinusitis is ...

Facial nerve paralysis due to intra-aural Hyalomma tick infestation.

We present the case of a 33 year-old man from a village of the north-eastern part of central Anatolia admitted to the otolaryngology department of Yeditepe University Hospital with right facial asymmetry and pain on the right ear. A tick of the genus Hyalomma was observed in the external auditory canal of the right ear and it was removed with fine cup forceps under otomicroscopy. We are of the ...

Isolated facial palsy due to intra-aural tick (ixodoidea) infestation

Ocular disease due to brucellosis.

ALL the chronic granulomatous infections may occasionally give rise to ocular disease, and tuberculosis and syphilis are the best known in Great Britain. Brucellosis is an infection which should, at least in its chronic forms, be regarded as an important member of this group, and ought to be remembered as a possibility when the cause of certain eye diseases is being investigated. Standard text-...