OBJECTIVES To determine the optimal approach for nasopharyngeal culture and to establish which approach children tolerate best. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A pediatric otolaryngology department of a Dutch tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS A cohort of 42 children with chronic suppurative otitis media. INTERVENTION Paired nasopharyngeal samples were collected transorally and tran...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Nasolabial cysts are rare nonodontogenic cysts arising commonly in the nasal alar region. Intraoral sublabial resection of nasolabial cysts is considered the standard treatment modality. In the past 16 years, transnasal endoscopic marsupialization has emerged as an alternative approach for these lesions. A systematic review on this entity was performed to evaluate manageme...

Introduction: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides information about tumor size and extension, infiltration of major blood vessels nerves, early bone-marrow infiltration, lymph node involvement. Transnasal endoscopic approaches are an integral part the therapeutic arsenal developed to address malignant sinonasal skull-base neoplasms. Objective: To analyze use magnetic in diagnosis perineur...

The course of patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma is often complicated by bowel obstruction and/or massive ascites. A transnasal long tube may be placed to relieve bowel obstruction, but produces nasal discomfort and pain. Recently, the effectiveness of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement for malignant bowel obstruction due to ovarian carcinoma has been reported, but n...

A 53-year-old man had a history of alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis. In July 2011, because of suspicion of a pseudocyst infection, he had undergone endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided cyst drainage. Further investigation after drainage had revealed a fistula between the pancreatic pseudocyst and descending colon; however, the transgastric internal drainage tubewas left in place because of th...

A 53-year-old man had a history of alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis. In July 2011, because of suspicion of a pseudocyst infection, he had undergone endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided cyst drainage. Further investigation after drainage had revealed a fistula between the pancreatic pseudocyst and descending colon; however, the transgastric internal drainage tubewas left in place because of th...