PURPOSE To compare the audiological results of elderly subjects based on the classifications according to the criteria of Davis and Silverman and of the recommendation 02/1 of the Bureau Internacional d'Audiophonologie (BIAP). METHODS The records of 140 elderly subjects, 79 female and 61 male, with average age of 69.75 years, were analyzed. Data regarding their clinical history and the result...

BACKGROUND In primary health care centres, upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in children are commonly encountered by physicians. Viruses cause most URTIs, but parents' attitudes often represent an important reason for antibiotic abuse, which leads to the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance. The goal of this study was to examine parents' knowledge, attitudes, and practice...

A 69-year-old woman with mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) of the tongue base came under our observation complaining of repeated episodes of haemoptysis. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the tongue base gives rise to a rather vague and aspecific symptomatology. Early symptoms include foreign body sensation in the oral cavity, undefined paraesthesia, and sialorrhoea. With the progression of disease, dys...

UNLABELLED The objective of this study was to determine how parents of preverbal children determine whether their child is having otalgia. We constructed 8 cases describing a 1-year-old child with acute otitis media (AOM) using various combinations of the following 6 observable symptoms: fussiness, ear tugging, eating less, fever, sleeping difficulty, and playing less. Parents of children with ...

A 75-year-old immunocompetent man presented to our office with right otalgia. After a comprehensive workup, he was found to have right temporal bone osteomyelitis and was treated with intravenous antibiotics. He then began to experience left-sided otalgia and was diagnosed with and treated for left temporal bone osteomyelitis. Subsequently, he began to exhibit myelopathic symptoms, and imaging ...

Background. Microvascular compressions of the cochlear nerve can lead to hearing loss. Due to the tonotopic organization of the cochlear nerve any focal compression of the cochlear nerve will result in a frequency specific hearing loss. Decompressing the cochlear nerve could result in a frequency specific hearing improvement, without improving overall hearing. Method. Thirty one patients underw...

OBJECTIVE Present experience in diagnosis and treatment for referred otalgia secondary to cervical spine degenerative disease (CSDD). STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study of 123 patients with ear pain. SUBJECTS AND METHODS All patients had a normal otologic examination and diagnosed with unspecified otalgia. The causes for referred otalgia were categorized into Group I: otalgia from non-cervi...

Eagle's syndrome represents a group of symptoms that includes recurrent throat pain, globus pharyngeus, dysphagia, referred otalgia, and neck pain possibly caused by elongation of the styloid process or ossification of the stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligaments. The medical history and physical and radiologic examinations are the main guides to the precise diagnosis. The radiologic diagnostic ...

Abstra t. This paper proposes an e ient algorithm to solve the problem of string mat hing with mismat hes. For a text of length n and a pattern of length m over an alphabet , the problem is known to be solved in O(j jn logm) time by omputing a s ore by the fast Fourier transformation (FFT). Atallah et al. introdu ed a randomized algorithm in whi h the time omplexity an be de reased by the trade...

BACKGROUND There is wide variation in UK prescribing practice regarding prophylactic antibiotics for nasal packing in spontaneous epistaxis. There are few published cases of infective complications in such patients. METHOD This prospective study examined 149 consecutive patients admitted to a tertiary otorhinolaryngology centre with spontaneous epistaxis, who underwent nasal packing, over a s...