introduction: to reduce incidence of residual cholesteatoma following ear surgery; and to reduce the need for second look “open” mastoidectomy using endoscopic mastoidotomy. ten-year retrospective chart review of 249 primary cholesteatoma cases (1994-2004) with a minimum follow-up of two years.  the first objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of otoendoscopy in reducing the incidence of “...

It is very important to harvest wheat in optimum time which greatly affects grain quality, mainly referred to as protein content in the research. Because either too early harvest shortens grain-filling process or too late harvest leads to yield losses and poor quality caused by high grain respiration rate in dry and hot wind weather and sprouting in rainy weather. Research was conducted during ...

Healio.com/Pediatrics | 181 Editor’s note: Each month, this department features a discussion of an unusual diagnosis. A description and images are presented, followed by the diagnosis and an explanation of how the diagnosis was determined. As always, your comments are welcome via email at [email protected]. An 11-year-old African-American boy with no significant medical history presented to the...

Objective: To compare the outcome of underlay versus overlay myringoplasty procedure in the management of otitis media. Methodology: This comparative study was conducted at the Department of Ear, Nose, Throat, Head & Neck Surgery, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar from January 2008 to December 2009. It included eighty-six patients with dry ears for at least six wee...

Seed dehydration is the normal terminal event in the development of orthodox seeds and is physiologically related to the cessation of grain dry mass accumulation and crop grain yield. For a better understanding of grain dehydration, we evaluated the hypothesis that hydraulic conductance of the ear decreases during the latter stages of development and that this decrease results from disruption o...

Chronic otitis media (COM) is completely treated with a single procedure in most patients but may require multiple surgeries in some cases. The main goals of open cavity mastoidectomy are to completely eradicate the disease, create a large enough meatus for examination and mastoid air cells, and provide a self-cleaning epithelized dry cavity, and achieve maximum hearing. In this report, we pres...

Hearing loss is often the only symptom of OMAAV at initial presentation, thus making early diagnosis difficult. We present OMAAV in a 70-year-old woman with hearing loss and dry cough. Otoscopy showed otitis media with effusion. Audiometry showed mixed hearing loss, especially in the right ear. Serum myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody was positive. Image analyses showed lung le...

Levy-Hollister or lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital (LADD) syndrome is a rare entity with autossomic dominant inheritance occuring as an isolated form or affecting many family generations. Diagnosis is based on the identification of the lacrimal drainage system abnormalities with reduction or absence of tear production and bone, teeth, salivar glands and outer ear abnormalities. A 13 year-old male...

Optimal nitrogen (N) supply is critical for achieving high grain yield of maize. It is well established that N deficiency significantly reduces grain yield and N oversupply reduces N use efficiency without significant yield increase. However, the underlying proteomic mechanism remains poorly understood. The present field study showed that N deficiency significantly reduced ear size and dry matt...

The field experiment was carried out during the Zaid season of 2022 at Crop Research Farm, Department Agronomy, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj (U.P.) India. To study response sulphur zinc on growth yield Pearl millet. treatments consist @ 20, 30 40 kg/ha 5, 10 and15 kg/ha. There were 9 each replicated thrice. soil experi...