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Stapes surgery results: The recent experience of Hospital Professor Doutor Fern...
Barbosa, Leonel; Costa, Eurico; Guimarães, Ana; Veiga, GabãoObjective: analyze the recent experience in stapes surgery of Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca through the evaluation of its audiometric results.Materials and methods: retrospective evaluation of clinical records concerning 155 consecutive stapes surgeries performed in Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca between January 2006 and December 2010.Results: the mean age was 43,6 years. The mean 4-fre...
Total laryngectomy - Clinical outcomes and prognostic factors
Pereira, Sónia; Oliveira, Filipa; Costa, Eurico; Montalvão, Pedro; Magalhães, MiguelThe choice between total laryngectomy (TL) and chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of advanced laryngeal and hypopharyngeal tumors remains controversial.Aiming to analyze clinical and functional outcomes of TL performed in our department, to identify prognostic factors and to verify the utility of computed tomography (CT) scan of the neck, we performed a retrospective study of TL performed between 2000 and 2004....
Otosclerosis - Audiometric results 5 year after stapes surgery
Costa, Eurico; Durão, Carolina; Trindade Soares, Mafalda; Decq Mota, Sofia; Guimarães, Ana; Freire, Filipe; Gabão Veiga, VictorObjective: To evaluate the audiometric results 5 years after stapedectomy, in a series of 85 ears.Study Design: RetrospectiveMaterials and methods: Analysis of audiometric results obtained 5 years after stapedectomy and comparison with the values from preoperative and early postoperative period.Results: Five years after stapedectomy closure of the air-bone gap (ABG) to ≤ 10 dB was obtained in 74% of cases. Nine...
Deep neck infections, experience of a portuguese department of otorhinolaryngology
Trindade Soares, Mafalda; Costa, Eurico; Durão, Carolina; Henriques, Pedro; Gabão Veiga, VítorNeck infections are a real clinical challenge, remaining at present an important health problem.Purpose: Statistical analysis of our experience with deep neck infections in the Otorhinolaryngology Department at Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca Hospital.Material and methods: Retrospective review of cases who were admitted as having deep neck infections, between 2001- 2011.Results: In this period 80 patients were ad...
Pediatric cholesteatoma: 12-year retrospective analysis of Hospital Prof. Douto...
Durão, Carolina; Costa, Eurico; Trindade Soares, Mafalda; Decq Mota, Sofia; Guimarães, Ana; Leandro, João Pedro; Gabão Veiga, VítorObjective: To review cases of cholesteatoma in pediatric age HFF during a period of 12 years.Study design: Retrospective review.Material and methods: Analysis of 30 cases of children undergoing surgical intervention for cholesteatoma from January 2000 to December 2011.Results: At presentation, cholesteatoma was extensive in most cases. These children were managed with open technique mastoidectomy (66.7%), close...
Outcomes for patients referred to a head and neck cancer center
Lopes, Sonia; Oliveira, Filipa; Costa, Eurico; Hebe, Ana; Montalvão, Pedro; Magalhães, MiguelHead and neck cancer is related to high morbidity and mortality. Early referral is particularly important.We performed a retrospective study concerning all patients referred to the head and neck consultation of Lisbon’s Instituto Português Oncologia over the year of 2008.Most of the 454 patients observed were male (86%), with a mean age of 60 years. The most common cancer was laryngeal (36%), and most of the tu...
Reconstruction of surgical defect with microvascular free flap by otolaryngolog...
Cavilhas, Pedro; Oliveira, Filipa; Pereira, Sónia; Costa, Eurico; Estibeiro, Hugo; Oliveira, Luís; Hebe, Ana; Montalvão, Pedro; Magalhães, MiguelIntroduction: The reconstruction of surgical defects after tumor resection in head and neck oncological surgery uses various techniques, which should preferably be performed at the same time. At the top of the so-called “Reconstructive ladder” are the Microvascular free flaps. Usually performed by plastic surgeons, any obstacle to their access should not preclude other surgeons, working in the field of head and...
Tympanoplasty: Restrospective review of results
Ramalho, Sara; Costa, Eurico; Guimarães, Ana; Leandro, João Pedro; Veiga, GabãoThe aim of this study is to determine the outcomes of tympanoplasty surgery carried out in patients with chronic otitis media. This study is a retrospective analysis of 201 patients who underwent tympanoplasty surgery between January 2005-December 2010 at Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca EPE. Subjects were evaluated for age, sex, type of perforation, surgical technique, type of graft material used, object...
Parotid tumors - Casuistry of the last 10 years of the Otolaryngology Departmen...
Oliveira, Filipa; Costa, Eurico; Pereira, Sónia; Pacheco, Ricardo; Magalhães, MiguelThe salivary gland tumors are uncommon neoplasms of the head and neck region, corresponding to 3-5% of the tumors in this location. In this article we will be doing a retrospective study of the occurrence of tumors of the parotid gland over the past 10 years in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology IPO Lisbon. Data were collected from a total of 153 patients from the period of 1st January of 2001 to 31st Decemb...
Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea – Case report and literature revision
Costa, Eurico; Guimarães, Ana; Freire, Filipe; Gabão Veiga, V.The authors present the case report of a 66 years old female patient, referred to our department at Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca for tinnitus and hearing loss, bilateral, more intense on the right side, with several years of evolution but worse in the last two years. Physical examination and audiometric tests were suggestive of otitis media with effusion.Nasal cavity and nasopharynx were normal. She u...