Anales otorrinolaringológicos ibero-americanos
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An Otorrinolaringol Ibero Am · Jan 1997
[Outpatient ENT hospital emergencies: a descriptive study of one year of services].
A descriptive and retrospective scrutiny dealing with 2,638 emergency cases admitted at "Virgen de la Salud" Hospital, Toledo, during 1993. Analysis of a series of parameters as age, sex, hour, day of the week, month, kind of pathology, emergency ward in charge of the exigency and so on, and correlation of these items. Assessment of the gravity of each urgent case and motive of admission. Our results are confronted with those given by other authors.
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An Otorrinolaringol Ibero Am · Jan 1996
Comparative Study[Validity of videolaryngoscopy in detecting laryngeal structural changes].
To determinate the validity of videolaryngoscopy on diagnose of laryngeal diseases versus other laryngoscopic methods. ⋯ Videolaryngoscopy is a method with major sensibility and negative predictive value as indirect laryngoscopy with mirror. But the latter is indispensable in diagnosis of laryngeal organic lesions and must be done prior to microlaryngoscopie direct examination.
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An Otorrinolaringol Ibero Am · Jan 1991
Case Reports[Oculographic findings in the Arnold-Chiari malformation type I].
The paper deals with 5 adults carriers of this syndrome diagnosed by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Neither the conventional radiography nor the plain computerized tomography showed indicative clues of the deformity. ⋯ In all cases appeared an altered smooth pursuit and a lack of suppression fixation of the vestibular nystagmus. The AA. emphasize the diagnostic value of the electronystagmography (which tracings could spare several other, sometimes expensive, examinations) and suggest a prompt MRI.
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The AA. expose the experience gained through a group of 9 cases of malignant external otitis. They review the previous circumstances, assess the results of medical and/or surgical treatment and the evolution of the processes, emphasizing the importance of prognostic factors. Twenty-two per cent was the rate mortality.