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General Considerations
- Child Abuse and ENT
Adriaan N. Bosschaart, Ann Hermansson and Thea van Zeben-van der A - Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Do We Need to Integrate it with Mainstream Pediatric Otolaryngology?
Deepa Bhargava and Kamlesh Bhargava - A Physician´s Personal Experience as a Cancer of the Neck Patient
Itzhak Brook - Obesity and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
Wei-Chung Hsu, Kun-Tai Kang, Pin-Lin Lee and Wen-Chin Weng - Innovations and Technology in Pediatric Otolaryngology
Bryan Rolfes and Paul Krakovitz - How Diet and Dietary Habits Impact Pediatric Ear, Nose & Throat Health
Julie Wei and Luiz Bellízia Neto - Piercing and Tatoos
Silvana Maria Coelho Pimentel - The Role of Vitamin D in Upper Respiratory Infections in Children
Paola Marchisio, Elena Baggi, Sonia Bianchini, Erica Nazzari, Chiara Rosazza, Nicola Principi, Susanna Esposito and Alessandro Danesi
Mouth, Head & Neck
- Pharyngotonsillitis New Guidelines in Sweden
Ann Hermansson and Anna Stjernquist-Desatnik - Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children
Syed Kamal Naqvi and Ron B. Mitchell - Laryngeal Stridors
Hugo Rodriguez, Giselle Cuestas, Magdalena Roques Revol and Juan Augustín Rodríguez D´Aquila - Evaluation of Pediatric Neck Masses
Peter C. Revenaugh and Paul Krakovitz - Pediatric Sialendoscopy
Alyssa Hackett, Deepak Mehta and Barry Schaitkin
Nose and Sinus
- Reflections on the Surgical Treatment of Choanal Atresia
John Robert Newman, Paula Harmon, William Peyton Shirley, Jimmy Scott Hill, Audie L. Woolley and Brian J. Wiatrak - Congenital Nasal Pyriform Aperture Stenosis
Karin P. Q. Oomen and Robert F. Ward - Complicated Sinusitis in the Newborn
João Subtil, Teresa Matos and José Saraiva - Indications and Contraindications in the Imaging Diagnosis of Inflammatory Sinusopathy in Children
Rainer G. Haetinger - Pediatric Orbital Complications of Acute Sinusitis: Changing Trends in Bacteriology
Maria T. Peña - Rhinoplasty in Pediatric Age
Teolinda Mendoza de Morales and Myrian Adriana Perez
Ear
- Microbiology and Immulogy in Acute Otitis Media in Children
Noboru Yamanaka - Updates in Otitis Media in Preterm Infants
Kelvin M. Kwong and James M. Coticchia - Recurrent Acute Otitis Media – When Should Immunodeficiency be Suspected?
Nadejda Maria Ávila da Silva Varjinha and Isabela Ávila Varginha de Moraes e Silva - Efficacy of Ear Ventilation Tubes in Reducing the Total Period of Conductive Hearing Loss in Children with Otitis Media with Effusion and Adenoid Hypertrophy
Vlad Postelnicu, Oana Iosif, Raluca Enache e Codrut Sarafoleanu - Pathobiology of Otitis Media. Ad
vances from Genetics
Mahmood Bhutta - Probiotics and Otitis Media in Children
Leena Niitynen, Liisa Lehtoranta, Anne Pitkäranta and Riitta Korpela - The Pathogenesis of Severe Otitis Media in Western Australian Children: A Review
Shyan Vijayasekaran, Harvey Coates, Ruth B. Thornton, Selma P. Wiertsema, Lea-Ann S. Kirkham, Sarra E. Jamieson, Marie Rye and Peter C. Richmond
Hearing and Communication Disorders in the XXI Century
- Noise – Induced Hearing Loss: Are Infants and Children at Risk?
Sarah C. Hugh, Sharon L. Cushing, Blake C. Papsin, Evan J. Propst and Tania Sih - Appreciating the Spectrum of Audiological Issues in Children with Down Syndrome
Fergal O´ Duffy, Donald Mc Askill and Ivan J. Keogh - Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction in Children with 565 Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Sharon L. Cushing and Blake C. Papsin