AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of presurgical nasoalveolar molding (PNAM) therapy in the management of patients with nonsyndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP). MATERIAL AND METHOD Ten patients with UCLP treated from 2009 to 2012. The initiation for PNAM treatment was 7 days and the average time of the treatment was 175 days. Measurements on patients and of casts were made,...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to evaluate the indications for, and outcomes and limitations of, OK-432 therapy in various otolaryngological cystic diseases. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective clinical study at Yamagata University School of Medicine and the Fukase Clinic in Japan. METHODS Between April 1996 and November 2009 we tried OK-432 therapy in 148 patients with otolaryngo...

Thyroglossal duct cysts followed by branchial cleft anomalies are the most common congenital neck masses encountered in practice, second branchial cleft cysts and sinuses are the most common type (LaRiviere and Waldhausen in Surg Clin North Am 92(3):583-597, 2012). Although both abnormalities are common individually, but rarely seen associated in same patient as described in our case. Congenita...

irst branchial cleft anomalies account for 8--10%1,2 of all ranchial cleft defects, representing approximately 17% of ll pediatric cervical masses. The low incidence and the arious clinical presentations of these congenital malformaions of the branchial apparatus make the diagnosis difficult ven for the experimented otolaryngologist. Depending on he type of the anomaly (fistula, sinus or cyst),...

Branchial cleft cysts are congenital anomalies that most commonly arise from a failure of fusion the second branchial arch during embryonic life. They usually present as swelling in lateral side neck, below mandible. In this article, we case 28-year-old female patient with right cyst measuring 7 × 6 5 cm, who presented an asymptomatic, rapidly growing mass anterior triangle neck abutted externa...

We report five cases of duplicated external ear canal with especial attention to its histology and surgical care of facial nerve for their complete resection. These five patients were selected from 50 cases of first bronchial cleft anomalies including atretic external ear canals, preauricular fistula, cyst and sinuses. The characteristic histopathology and clinical features such as external ope...

Objectives: One of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. An early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. This study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. Materials: The MacArthur-Bat...

Abstract Background Pilonidal disease is seen at sacrococcigeal region in prevalent number of cases. We present an unusual case abscess lumbar which turned out to be a pilonidal sinus. Case presentation A 18-year-old male presented the outpatient clinic with swelling area for 1 month. Physical examination revealed inflammatory infiltrate 1,5*1,5cm, fluctuation, located projection L4-L5 vertebra...

The authors describe an unusual case of large pituitary cyst and discuss its spontaneous disappearance in the follow-up. A 27-year-old male patient with sudden onset of nausea and headache admitted with a sellar hypodense mass lesion diagnosed by computed tomography (CT). Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the patient with normal neurological examination showed intrasellar mass lesion hypointen...