A 49-year-old male who attended our hospital due to a history of left hearing loss over a period of 2 years, associated to otalgia, and vertigo to which bleeding in the left ear and facial paralysis had been added in the last 4 months. He reported the simultaneous onset of a left-sided neck swelling with slow growing. After this, he developed loss of sensation of taste on the posterior third of...

The foramen tympanicum is an anatomical variation that is created in the tympanic plate of temporal bone during the first year of life. The tympanic plate grows and foramen tympanicum is gradually closed by about the fifth postnatal year. However, due to a defect in normal ossification, foramen tympanicum sporadically remains throughout life. The construction of a shopping center in Tabriz, nor...

Tympanic paragangliomas are uncommon vascular tumors of neural crest origin. Classically these lesions have been surgically managed via a transcanal or transmastoid approach using binocular microscopy. We describe a case in which a tympanic paraganglioma was removed via a transcanal approach, using the endoscope exclusively. Endoscopic ear surgery enhances visualization, helping to ensure compl...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Decrease in body temperature is common during general and regional anesthesia. Forced-air warming intraoperative during cesarean section under spinal anesthesia seems not able to prevent it. The hypothesis considers that active warming before the intraoperative period avoids temperature loss during cesarean. METHODS Forty healthy pregnant patients undergoing elective...

The foramen of Huschke, or foramen tympanicum, is a developmental defect in the bony part of the external auditory canal (EAC) due to a defect in ossification of normal bone in the first 5 years of life. Seen in the anteroinferior part of the EAC, it can be asymptomatic or present with salivary discharge into the EAC during mastication or as soft tissue swelling in the EAC in the absence of any...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of (68)Ga-labeled DOTANOC PET/CT for baseline evaluation of patients with head and neck paragangliomas (HNPs). METHODS The data for 26 patients (mean age ± SD, 34.3 ± 10.4 y; 50% men) with known or suspected HNPs who underwent (68)Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT for staging were retrospectively analyzed. PET/CT was performed after intravenous in...

INTRODUCTION  Adenomas with neuroendocrine differentiation are defined as neuroendocrine neoplasms, and they are rarely found in the head and neck. OBJECTIVE  To describe two cases of a middle ear adenoma with neuroendocrine differentiation, with a literature review. CASE REPORT  Patient 1 was a 41-year-old woman who presented with a 3-year history of left aural fullness associated with ips...

413 Numerous factors may lead to pulsatile tinnitus (PT), including atherosclerosis, benign intracranial hypertension, glomus tympanicum tumor, dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs), abnormalities of the sigmoid sinus (dehiscence and diverticulum), and jugular bulb anomalies (glomus jugular tumor, diverticulum, high‑riding or dehiscent jugular bulb). However, exact causes often cannot be found i...