BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although otalgia is usually associated with ear problems, it may also originate outside the ear. We therefore assessed the clinical characteristics of patients with otalgia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We analyzed 294 patients who presented with otalgia. We assessed differences in otalgia between adults and children, differences in otogenic vs. referred otalgia between adul...

OBJECTIVES To examine the utility of nasopharyngeal culture in the management of children with chronic adenoiditis to determine if it results in a change in antibiotic therapy. METHODS Retrospective chart review of pediatric patients managed for chronic adenoiditis, being defined as cough, postnasal drip, and congestion for over three months with endoscopic evidence of nasopharyngeal purulenc...

BACKGROUND The present study investigated the effectiveness of a Pimpinella anisum-based herbal medicine for treating chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) without polyps in comparison to fluticasone nasal spray, in a single-blinded randomized trial. METHODS Patients with CRS without nasal polyps were randomly assigned into 2 treatment groups: individuals in the first group (n = 26) received 2 drops o...

A 32-year-old Polish Caucasian man was referred to the otolaryngology clinic by his general practitioner with a two-month history of right-sided nasal obstruction and epistaxis. The patient was an amateur boxer and had sustained many blows to the nose and face, but could not recall any major recent injuries. He had no symptoms of rhinorrhoea, postnasal drip, hyposmia or facial pain. The patient...

Chronic nasopharyngitis (CNP) associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is etiopathogenetically based on the virus-induced chronic inflammation of pharyngeal tonsil. Studies using immunological methods have shown that EBV involved in hypertrophy lymphoid tissue pharynx children and adolescents, since tonsil site primary infection persistence virus. The surgery does not often resolve problem 19-2...

Teratoma in the nasopharynx is one of the rare causes for nasal symptoms in the newborn. The present report was on a term "neonate" who had respiratory distress from a hidden teratoma. Cheaper and readily available investigation modalities including postnasal space X-ray and examination under anesthesia revealed nothing. A postnasal space computed tomography also revealed nothing. Magnetic reso...

In the last fifty years, an epidemic of reflux disease has occurred as a result poor eating habits, stress, and activities food industry. Part this is laryngopharyngeal reflux, characterized by return gastric contents to throat surrounding organs, leading hoarseness, coughing, difficulty in swallowing breathing, ultimately development benign malignant changes larynx. This study aimed examine sy...

BACKGROUND: The 'drip-and-ship' paradigm denotes a treatment regimen in patients in whom intravenous (IV) recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is initiated at the emergency department (ED) of a community hospital, followed by transfer within 24 h to a comprehensive stroke center. Although the drip-and-ship paradigm has the potential to increase the number of patients who receive IV ...