Objective: Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR), the treatment for nasolacrimal duct obstruction, is generally performed endonasally. In this retrospective study, we compared the anatomical and functional success rate of endonasal DCR with endocanalicular diode laser DCR.

Methods: Medical records of 53 patients in endonasal DCR group (Group 1) and 47 in endocana...

Objective: To evaluate success of tympanoplasty type 1 in the treatment of patients with sclerotic mastoid bone.

Methods: A retrospective study where 92 patients with non-cholesteatomatous chronic suppurative otitis media were recruited during the period of 2010 to 2012. Patients were managed medically and after dryness of their perforations they were o...

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between paradoxical vocal cord motion (PVCM) disease and the diseases such as asthma, laryngopharyngeal reflux and anxiety disorder that should be taken into consideration most frequently in differential diagnosis.

Methods: The study included 100 patients (64 females and 36 males) who had applied to the polyclinic...

Objective: To investigate hearing loss ratio of babies screened at our university hospital which is reference hospital in Kütahya, Turkey

Methods: A total number of 6881 newborns were screened for hearing between February 2010 and December 2013 in our hospital. Screening was done before newborns discharged. The parents of the newborns discharged during ...

Objective: We retrospectively analysed clinical characteristics, treatment and outcomes of the patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

Methods: Twelve patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome were analysed retrospectively. Data recorded included sex, age, time from first onset to initial treatment and clinical outcomes. The House-Brackmann scale was used to asses...

Objective: To report our experience about pedicled pectoralis major myocutaneous flap (PMMF) for the treatment of pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF).

Methods: Between June 2006 and September 2014, 202 consecutive total laryngectomies for laryngeal or hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma were performed in our hospital. The medical records of the patients ...

Objective: In this study, our aim was to evaluate statistically demographic distribution, presenting complaints, requested examinations, prescribed drugs, and follow-up recommendations related to the patients who applied to the otorhinolaryngology outpatient clinics in a rural area of Turkey.

Methods: Examinations, and treatments applied by three physic...

In this review paper, we reported otolaryngological problems in patients with mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs). Mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of lysosomal storage diseases, each of which is produced by an inherited deficiency of an enzyme involved in the degradation of acid mucopolysaccharides, now called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). The mucopolysaccharidoses consist of a group of 7 metabolic dis...

A 49-year-old woman admitted to our clinic due to a progressive hoarse voice for 4 years, foreign body sensation in the back of her throat, otalgia, hoarseness and mouth breathing. Nasolaryngoscopy demonstrated a right nasopharyngeal mass extending to oropharynx. Indirect laryngoscopy revealed a granulomatous lesion originating from right band ventricle and extending on the right vocal fold. Th...