BACKGROUND Deep neck infections are important otolaryngologic emergencies due to serious complications and the risk of airway compromise, which can lead to mortality. Although the most common causes among pediatric patients are tonsillitis and pharyngeal infections, odontogenic infections are an important cause in adults. CASE REPORT We present three patients with multiple deep neck space abs...

Objectives. This study aims to analyze the cost of patient care among ORL-HNS patients admitted in a tertiary,teaching government hospital low- middle-income country.Methods. is prevalence-based, prospective, bottom-up, cost-of-illness analysis theDepartment Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery tertiary training from July 2021 March 2022. The value assessment method used human capital appr...

Ingestion of a foreign body is a problem seen in nearly all otolaryngologic practices. One of the least common complications of foreign-body ingestion is penetration and migration, which may lead to serious morbidity or even death. We report the findings of a retrospective review of a series of 5 patients who had presented with a complete foreign-body penetration. All of them had radiologic evi...

The diagnosis and management of occipital-atlantal and atlantoaxial instability in Down syndrome patients is a challenging problem in pediatric spine surgery. To date, no systematic review of this topic has been presented on this confusing and sometimes contentious issue. This topic review will focus on the biomechanical and radiographic foundations for which treatment recommendations in Down s...

For the planning of large infrastructure projects, such as tunnelled inner-city carriageways, completely different scales have to be considered – ranging from the scale of several kilometres for the general routing of the carriageway down to centimetre scale for the detailed planning of track nodes. However, today’s planning software hardly supports multi-scale approaches. The paper presents a ...