inverted papillomas of the nose and paranasal sinuses are uncommon neoplasms, characterized by their tendency to occur and by their association with malignancy. in the past decade there has been a trend toward the use of endoscopic surgical techniques in the management of these tumors. this article presents the results of a prospective study of24 patients with inverted papilloma resected by the...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate audiological outcomes following adenoidectomy by the classical method and by endoscopically-assisted adenoidectomy using a powered instrument (microdebrider).   materials and methods: this study was conducted in a tertiary care center. it included 40 patients divided into two equal groups of 20 each. group-a patients underwent classical adenoi...

Endoscopic radial artery harvesting (ERAH) is a feasible and attractive minimally invasive approach for conduit procurement, however there have been concerns about a potential neurological damage occurring at the harvest limb site secondary to injury of the radial nerve during endoscopic harvesting. We present a case of ERAH in which we evaluated intraoperatively the characteristics of radial n...

aim : to evaluate the role of  endoscopic ultrasonography (eus) in the diagnosis of gallbladder microlithiasis, sludge, and stone  in patients with clinical suspicion of cholecystitis, but with normal transabdominal ultrasonography (tus) during six months follow-up after laparosopic cholecystectomy (lct). background : endosonography has been shown to be highly sensitive in the detection of chol...

background: pancreatitis is a serious complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp) and may cause significant morbidity and even death. there is no effective prophylactic intervention for patients with average risk yet. this study aims to investigate preventive effect of aggressive hydration for post-ercp pancreatitis. materials and methods: in a double-blind controlled ...

background: the most common complication of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp) is acute pancreatitis. a number of therapeutic trials have been studied due to reduce the occurrence of postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis (pep) but many of them were unsuccessful. periampullary corticosteroid injection was proposed to use as ...

introduction frontal sinus mucoceles are the commonest among all paranasal mucoceles. with introduction of functional endoscopic sinus surgery, surgeons prefer endoscopic management of sinus mucoceles, but lesions that appear in the lateral part of the frontal sinus can be difficult to access and often need external approaches. case presentation we described a lateral frontal sinus mucocele wit...

The effects of oral administration of pentazodne were compared with those of non-DDA analgesics given orally and with those of DDA analgesics given orally and parenterally in patients with intractable pain, over a period of three days while awaiting treatment by percutaneous electrical cordotomy. The dose of pentazodne varied from 25-100 mg four times per day, comparisons being made with the pr...