We herein report a newly described cause of venous pulsatile tinnitus: protrusion of an aberrant sylvian vein into the tympanum. A 60-year-old woman presented with a 4-month history of objective persistent pulsatile tinnitus in the right ear with no other complaints. The pulsatile tinnitus diminished with rotation of the head to the right side or by compression of the right cervical vascular st...

BACKGROUND Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. CASE PRESENTATIONS We encountered a patient with sensorineural hearing loss complicating scrub typhus, and three patients with scrub typhus who complained of otalgia, which was sudden onset, severe, paroxysmal, intermittent yet persistent pain lasting for several seconds, appeared within 1 week after the ons...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and the use of novel agents, such as sorafenib has now demonstrated activity in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. We present a case of a 77-year-old Caucasian male with advanced adenocarcinoma of the lung, who was being treated on clinical trial with single agent sorafenib. After seven weeks of treatment the patient presented to clinic with d...

A cholesteatoma is a relatively common condition within the middle ear cavity, whereas a cholesteatoma of the squamous part of the temporal bone is an exceptionally rare entity. A case of an iatrogenic cholesteatoma located in the squamous part of the temporal bone is presented, which was revealed by an intermittent purulent discharge from an opening above the right ear 20 years after retroauri...

Background Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are used with increasing frequency worldwide. The present research was conducted to determine the effects of ART on hearing defects and ear abnormalities. MaterialsAndMethods n a descriptive, cross-sectional, non-randomized study, the status of hearing and ear abnormalities was assessed in 300 newborns conceived by ART at Royan Institute, Tehran...

OBJECTIVE To measure the time to spontaneous resolution of severe chronic otitis media with effusion (glue ear) in children and study the effects of adenoidectomy, adenotonsillectomy, and ventilation tubes (grommets). DESIGN Randomised controlled study over 12 years. SETTING Paediatric otorhinolaryngology clinics and in-patient unit. SUBJECTS 228 children aged 2-9 years with pronounced he...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the resorption rate and biocompatibility characteristics of novel cross-linked hydrogel ventilation tubes and varied formulations of polyester ventilation tubes in a Chinchilla model. STUDY DESIGN Animal Study. METHODS Three cross-linked glycosaminoglycan hydrogel ventilation tubes fabricated by cross-linking thiol-modified chondroitin sulfate or thiol-mod...

A compact OCT device and a method for image reconstruction are described. The proposed algorithm contains novel procedure motion artifact suppression based on correction of the phase original interferometric signal due to mutual correlation adjacent A-scans. This corrects distortions caused by unwanted displacements probe relative object in real time at speed up 3 mm/s an acquisition rate 20 B-...