introduction: the ministry of health and medical education of iran, and similar institutions in many other countries, advises physicians to use current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (aom). however, there has been no evaluation of the effectiveness of such guidelines or whether physicians in iran adhere to them. thus, as laryngologists are the most important gr...

Objectives. To determine the agreement between 1) ear examination findings of otorhinolaryngologist using an otoscope and trained elementary school nurses a penlight, 2) hearing screening nurses, both Philippine National Ear Institute (PNEI) Method 512 Hz Tuning Fork Test (TFT) 3) PNEI TFT audiometry findings.
 Methods. In this continuing study, residing in venue previously penlight TFT, c...

Case Presentation: A 26-year-old male presented to our emergency department for six days of right-sided facial myasthenia and parasthesias following a dental procedure using anesthetic nerve blocks. Discussion: Iatrogenic cranial VII neuropraxia, peripheral injury, is an uncommon complication alveolar blocks with few documented cases specifically due anesthesia. Treatment usually involves use o...

Recent studies have reported an association between systolic blood pressure (BP) and rhinitis. The prevalence of allergic rhinitis is 20% to 30% in Japan. The present cross-sectional study was performed to assess the relation between BP and allergic rhinitis in a sample of 2,292 male adolescent high school students who attended the annual school health examination. Of the 2,292 students (mean a...