Blastomycosis of the Skull Base [PDF]
Blastomycosis is usually considered a pulmonary or cutaneous disease. A patient with blastomycosis of the infratemporal fossa temporal bone and sinuses without pulmonary disease is presented. Extensive skull base involvement required surgical debridement for relief of pain, and long-term systemic antifungal therapy.
R T, Weingarten +4 more
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Optimal timing of salvage intratympanic steroids in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
Background Salvage intratympanic steroids (ITS) works in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) after failure of initial therapy, but optimal timing of administration is unknown.
Yongzhen Wu +8 more
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Endonasal endoscopic surgical treatment of craniopharyngiomas in adult patients. Our experience
Objective: to estimate the results of surgical treatment of adult patients with craniopharyngiomas (CP), who underwent endoscopic endonasal surgical treatment. Materials and methods.
Mykola O. Guk, Andriy A. Chukov
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Endonasal surgical management of tuberculum sellae meningiomas. Our experience
Purpose: to evaluate the results of endonasal interventions in patients with meningioma of the TS, to determine the criteria for selecting patients for endonasal approach, to establish indications and contraindications, to analyze the ...
Mykola O. Guk, Valeriia V. Musulevska
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Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring for Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to the Skull Base: A Technical Guide. [PDF]
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during endoscopic, endonasal approaches to the skull base is both feasible and safe. Numerous reports have recently emerged from the literature evaluating the efficacy of different neuromonitoring tests during
Doan, Adam T. +6 more
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Pneumoventricle of Unknown Origin. A Personal Experience and Literature Review of a Clinical Enigma [PDF]
Pneumocephalus (PC) is an uncommon and life-threatening neurological condition. Air within the ventricular system of the brain is also known as Pneumoventricle (PV). It requires emergency treatments to prevent catastrophic neurological outcomes.
Armocida, Daniele +5 more
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Nasal Cerebrospinal Leaks in the Milieu of COVID-19 Pandemic
Background The unintentional ingestion of oropharyngeal or gastric contents into the respiratory tract is known as aspiration. Rhinorrhea can cause aspiration pneumonia (cerebrospinal fluid leakage).
Oleg I. Sharipov +8 more
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Use of long implants with distal anchorage in the skull base for treatment of extreme maxillary atrophy : the remote bone anchorage concept [PDF]
The objectives of this study are to present a new concept of the bone anchorage using long implants in remote bone sites and to discuss four cases treated with this method.
Constantinus Politis +5 more
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Computed tomography of the human developing anterior skull base [PDF]
The ossification of the anterior skull base, especially the lamina cribrosa, has been studied by computed tomography and histopathology. Sixteen human fetuses, (referred to our laboratory for pathological examination after spontaneous abortion between 18
Klooswijk, A.I.J. (A. I J) +3 more
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Possible Skull Base Erosion After Prolonged Frontal Sinus Stenting [PDF]
Frontal sinus stenting is widely used with the goal of maintaining nasofrontal duct patency after sinus surgery. The general recommendation is to leave stents in place for 6 months; however, prolonged stenting up to 6 years has been reported with no ...
Ching, Harry H., MD +3 more
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