BACKGROUND Acute mastoiditis is a serious complication of acute otitis media especially in the pediatric age group. This study reports the authors' experience in the treatment of children admitted with acute mastoiditis to the Pediatric Hospital of Cairo University throughout the year 2007, also we aimed to evaluate our current management of this serious disease. METHODS Nineteen children wer...

BACKGROUND Velopharyngeal insufficiency and chronic otitis media with effusion following primary cleft palate repair can be attributed to persistent abnormalities in the levator and tensor veli palatini muscles, respectively. The purpose of this case-control study was to examine the association between otitis media with effusion requiring myringotomy tubes and the need for secondary speech surg...

The occurrence of sinusitis and middle ear effusions has frequently been attributed to the obstruction of the sinus ostia and/or eustachian tube. In the intensive care unit setting, edema caused by the irritation from nasogastric, nasotracheal and orotracheal tubes has been associated with this pathology and has been responsible for occult sepsis in this population. Our investigation was perfor...

BACKGROUND The optimal local anesthetic for myringotomies or the insertion of tympanostomy tubes in adults should be easy and rapid to use, be painless during application, provide good anesthesia, be reversible, be inexpensive, and not cause any long-term damage to the tympanic membrane (TM). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the histologic effects of topical anesthetic agents on the healing of the TM af...

The insertion of a myringotomy tube is a common ENT procedure. Traditionally, this procedure is performed under otomicroscopic view. In this paper I describe a technique using rigid endoscopy with the Hopkins rod and a video monitor as a visual aid for the insertion of myringotomy tube in older children and adults. The technique is safe and effective; it allows demonstration of the entire tympa...

Myringotomy and tympanostomy are related terms that are sometimes used interchangeably to describe an opening in the tympanic membrane. In this policy, the term myringotomy will be used to describe a temporary opening in the tympanic membrane without insertion of a pressure-equalizing tube (PET), while tympanostomy will be used to describe an opening in the tympanic membrane in conjunction with...

In 16 infants with intractable diarrhoea, latent otomastoiditis was found in 9 (3 at necropsy and 6 at myringotomy-antrotomy). In 5 of the 6 operated group, surgery was followed by a striking cessation of the diarrhoea and with weight gain. It is concluded that (1) latent otomastoiditis may be a perpetuating factor in intractable diarrhoea; (2) myringotomy-antrotomy should be considered if othe...

Introduction: "Otitis media with effusion " has been increasingly used in most of the recent literature and has become the current terminology, even though, the termeffusion does not differentiate purulent and non purulent. Materials and methods: It was a retrospective study of 100 patients presenting with hearing loss between the study period of one year (July 2001 to June 2002) in the Departm...