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Jun 18, 2025Open Access
Nasolabial cysts are rare non-odontogenic, soft-tissue, developmental cysts typically found in the sublabial area and anterior maxillary region. These cysts present as slowly enlarging, asymptomatic, and non-painful swellings, often causing effacement of the nasolabial fold and occasionally nasal obstruction. The diagnosis is primarily clinical, with radiological findings being non-specific. However, computed tomography may provide further details. Surgical removal through a sublabial approach i...
Jun 13, 2025Open Access
Background: Acute otitis media (AOM) is among the most common paediatric diseases and a leading cause of morbidity in children. Common etiologic pathogens include non-typable Haemophilus influenza, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Moraxella catarrhalis among others. Evidence shows an increase in cases of antimicrobial resistance when treating for AOM in children, which could be attributed to high r...
Apr 02, 2025Open Access
Extra-nodal Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas (NHL) in the head and neck region are most commonly found in the Waldeyer’s lymphatic ring. However, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas occurring in infra-temporal fossa are exceptionally rare. We report a case of a 38-year-old female patient, who presented with unilateral exophthalmos and facial paresthesia persisting over three months. Imaging and histological investigations revealed a primary Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma located in the infra-temporal region. The patient und...
Aug 13, 2024Open Access
The Potts puffy tumor is a very rare entity. It presents as an abscess under-périosté performing a swelling front with osteomyelitis of loss front side more often to sinusitis frontal. We report the observation of a patient 67 years old who was admitted to the emergency swelling front. The computed tomography (CT) brain showed a lesion tissue compartment right sinus front seat of calcification and osteomyelitis of the frontal bone with calcification in the frontal sinus recess. The patient was o...
Mar 27, 2024Open Access
Objective: To investigate the improvement of speech recognition for phone call listening by using wireless audio streaming hearing aids in noisy environments. Methods: 30 subjects who were diagnosed as symmetrical, sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), no middle ear problem, good aided speech recognition and able to speak Mandarin were selected in this research. Speech recognition scores for the phone call between aided with wireless mode-on and aided with wireless mode-off in quiet and noisy envir...
Feb 27, 2024Open Access
The aim was to assess possible trends in the prescription of extractions for therapeutic purposes over the last 5 - 10 years and to focus on changes in treatment goals, facial aesthetics and the smile. A cross-sectional study was carried out. A total sample of 107 participants was selected. The questionnaire used in this study was inspired by that of Fleming PS et al., 2018 (1). A 17-item questionnaire was distributed to participants for completion, 15 of them were close-ended questions while 2 ...
Nov 11, 2020Open Access
Voice and speaking are integral parts of a person’s self-identity and ability to communicate on a day-to-day basis. There have been numerous studies investigating the link between gastro-esophageal reflux disease and its concomitant association with a range of other disorders across the breadth of medicine. In this review, we will focus on the relationship between conditions which contribute to pathologies of voice and GORD. These will include Laryngopharyngeal reflux, Globus Pharyngeus and Paro...
Sep 27, 2020Open Access
Objective: The aim of this work was to determine the molecular prevalence of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in carcinomas of the larynx and to identify its circulating genotypes. Patients and Methods: This was a descriptive, retrospective study of 20 years which included all the patients followed in otolaryngology department for laryngeal carcinoma. The virological analysis was done on the laryngeal biopsy pieces included in paraffin using the Gene Xpert technique. This technique uses real-time...
Sep 19, 2019Open Access
Introduction: Otorhinolaryngological pathologies in children are a problem in sub-Saharan Africa because they are frequent and complex, yet poorly described, and their management poses a real challenge. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical and therapeutic characteristics, as well as to establish a diagnostic and topographic grouping of the main ENT diseases in children attending the ENT department of the Univer ...
Feb 25, 2019Open Access
This was a case report which described the background, method, and test results of the effect of 3 wavelength lasers transmeatal irradiation treatment on motion sickness, using combined lasers with an output of 2.5 mW @ 532 nm 10.0 mW @ 808 nm 2.0 mW @ 1064 nm for transmeatal irradiation treatment. 10 patients aged 50 ± 25 were treated with MWLLLTI at a dose of 104 Joule in total for both e ...
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