Journal Reviews

MRI and the endolymphatic space

1 July 2016 | | Delayed endolymphatic hydrops (DEH), bilateral case, endolymphatic hydrops (EH), gadolinium-enhanced inner ear MRI, semiquantitative analysis

This is an interesting study which was performed to evaluate the endolymphatic space in patients with endolymphatic hydrops (EH), using MR imaging. Seven patients aged between 21–77 years; five female, two male with unilateral or bilateral symptoms of EH were...

Passive smoking and rhinosinusitis

1 November 2014 | | Rhinology / Sinus | Chronic rhinosinusitis, hair nicotine, passive smoke, prevalence, quantitative

One would expect that subjects exposed to more passive smoke would have a significantly increased level of rhinosinusitis. This study looked at a reasonable number of sinusitis and control subjects (404 and 165) using hair nicotine as an assessment of...