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Parapharyngeal abscess
Parapharyngeal abscesses are deep neck abscesses involving the parapharyngeal space. It is a serious medical condition, potentially fatal, and requires prompt diagnosis and treatment.
Epidemiology
A person of any age can develop a parapharyngeal abscess, but it is most commonly seen in childre...
Case
Sialolithiasis - submandibular gland
Published
06 Sep 2013
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Ultrasound
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Tonsillitis
Tonsillitis refers to inflammation of any of the tonsils and is one of the most common head and neck infections in adolescents and young adults.
Clinical presentation
Patients may present with a variety of symptoms including painful throat (may be unilateral), dysphagia, fevers, tender cervica...
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Laryngeal trauma - left submucosal glottic hematoma
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15 Mar 2014
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First branchial cleft cyst
First branchial cleft cysts are a type of branchial cleft anomaly. They are uncommon and represent only ~7% of all branchial cleft cysts.
Epidemiology
First branchial cleft cysts are usually diagnosed in middle-aged women 3-4.
Clinical presentation
Their presentation can be in the form of 3...
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Sensorineural hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) refers to deafness secondary to conditions affecting the inner ear, internal acoustic canal, cerebellopontine angle, or vestibulocochlear nerve.
It an be classified audiometrically into two types
sensory (cochlear)
neural (retrocochlear)
Pathology
Conditio...
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Laryngeal tumor - squamous cell carcinoma
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06 Jan 2015
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Pyriform fossa squamous cell carcinoma with necrotic nodal metastases
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08 Jan 2016
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CT
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Epistaxis
Epistaxis (plural: epistaxes) is the medical term for a nosebleed, and is very common in clinical practice with a broad differential diagnosis. Anterior epistaxes mainly bleed from Kiesselbach's plexus and posterior epistaxes (5% of all epistaxis) from Woodruff's plexus.
Epidemiology
Epistaxis...
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Papillary thyroid carcinoma: with cystic lymphadeopathy
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31 Mar 2016
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Hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
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14 Jun 2016
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MRI
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Aggressive fungal sinusitis
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08 Jul 2016
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CT
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Chronic otomastoiditis with ossicular erosions
Chronic otomastoiditis with ossicular erosions, also known as non-cholesteatomatous ossicular erosions or post-inflammatory ossicular erosions, is defined by the erosive changes involving the middle ear ossicles in the absence of cholesteatoma in a patient with a history of chronic otomastoiditi...
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Chronic otomastoiditis with tympanosclerosis
Chronic otomastoiditis with tympanosclerosis represents calcific foci within the middle ear or tympanic membrane secondary to suppurative chronic otomastoiditis.
Pathology
Tympanosclerosis reflects deposits of hyalinized collagen in the tympanic cavity. It can manifest as unifocal or multifoca...
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Cochlear aplasia
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29 Apr 2020
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MRI
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Inferior turbinate hypertrophy
Inferior turbinate hypertrophy is one of many causes of nasal obstruction and can be a contributing factor to obstructive sleep apnea.
Pathology
Etiology
allergic rhinitis (most common)
vasomotor rhinitis
drug-induced rhinitis
Treatment and prognosis
Pharmacological treatment (e.g. topic...
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Anterior ethmoidal notch
The anterior ethmoidal notch contains the anterior ethmoidal artery and has significant rates of anatomic variation that is seen during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
Gross anatomy
The anterior ethmoidal notch lies in the medial wall of the superomedial orbit, adjacent to the ante...
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Glottic web
Glottic webs are focal narrowings of the airway due to the formation of a membranous connection at the level of the true vocal folds 1.
Clinical presentation
Symptoms include exercise intolerance, dysphonia, hoarseness, stridor, respiratory distress and airway obstruction7.
Infants may also p...