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  The proposed mechanisms of pathogenesis are 1) the embryonic developmental deficits of the meatal plug, during its differentiation into squamous epithelium, cause the arrest of ectodermal tissues, 2) a remnant of the squamous epithelium becomes trapped in the niche of the foramen tympanicum. CONCLUSION A rare case of congenital external auditory canal cholesteatoma, located on the inferior external auditory canal, was diagnosed and resected using a transcanal endoscopic approach. It was possibly caused by a minor anomaly of the first branchial cleft or by a remnant of the squamous epithelium trapped in the foramen tympanicum.OBJECTIVES Evaluation of foreign language acquisition at school in cochlear implant patients. STUDY DESIGN Multicenter cohort study. SETTING CI centers. PATIENTS One hundred twenty-five CI users (10-18 yr) in the German-speaking part of Switzerland were enrolled. Demographic data were obtained by means of written questionnaires. German-speaking children with mainstream foreign language tuition (English and/or French) were enrolled for further testing. The control group of normal-hearing individuals was matched on age, class, and number of foreign language lessons attended. RESULTS Overall, 100 questionnaires were returned. The 12 CI users without foreign language learning attended special schools. CI users who attended foreign language classes had better German speech comprehension compared with those without foreign language tuition (89 versus 51%; p  less then  0.05). Thirty-one CI users of different grades were further tested. All (10/10) CI 6th graders attained the school objectives for both English reading and listening skills. French performance at 6th grade for reading was 3/7 and for listening only 1/7. There were 13 matched normal-hearing pairs for English and 10 for French. The total scores were on average 7% higher, with a statistical significance for English reading (p  less then  0.05). CONCLUSIONS Almost 90% of CI children in Switzerland learn foreign language(s) at school. All the tested patients reached the current school objectives for English reading. The success rate for French was lower, especially regarding listening tasks. The 13 matched pairs with normal-hearing did not score substantially better.A 49-year-old otherwise healthy male presented with an odontogenic abscess and mild left facial swelling. CT imaging revealed gaseous hypodensities within the inferior orbital fissure and pterygopalatine fossa in addition to infection of the left masseter and temporalis muscle.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/mz-1.html  Despite dental drainage, this rapidly progressed to orbital cellulitis with temporalis muscles abscess leading to compartment syndrome and globe tenting. He had an excellent outcome after canthotomy and cantholysis, urgent endoscopic and transconjunctival orbital decompression, temporalis muscle abscess drainage, and intravenous antibiotics. This case describes the use of bony orbital decompression for orbital compartment syndrome and globe tenting from odontogenic orbital cellulitis. In addition, this case radiographically demonstrates a transinferior orbital fissure passageway of an odontogenic abscess in the orbit.Botulinum toxin type-A is a standard treatment of a variety of neurological disorders. Here, the authors report a rare ocular adverse effect after periocular Botulinum Toxin-A injection for hemifacial spasm. Three weeks after the injection, facial spasm was relieved, but the patient had dimness of vision OS. Examination revealed corneal edema, anterior-chamber reaction, keratic precipitates, and elevated intraocular pressure in OS suggesting reactivation of herpes simplex viral endotheliitis with trabeculitis. The case was successfully treated with oral acyclovir (400 mg) and topical fluorometholone 0.1% for 6 weeks. Pre- and posttreatment anterior segment optical coherence tomography clearly demonstrated the evidence of keratic precipitates. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of herpetic reactivation in the form of corneal endotheliitis with trabeculitis after Botulinum toxin-A injection. The aim of reporting this case is to alert the clinician about the possibility of such consequence of botulinum toxin injection.A 35-year-old woman with a history of cocaine abuse presented with progressively worsening OS pain. Neuroimaging revealed a 3-cm ill-defined left orbital lesion involving the intraconal and extraconal spaces.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/mz-1.html  The orbital mass was biopsied via an anterior orbitotomy approach. Pathology demonstrated prominent angiocentric granulomatous and lymphoplasmacytic inflammation consistent with vasculitis. Laboratory tests were significant for neutropenia, positive perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies with high titer, and positive myeloperoxidase antibodies, consistent with levamisole-induced vasculitis. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case of cocaine-levamisole-induced vasculitis presenting as orbitopathy.INTRODUCTION The floppy eyelid syndrome describes an eyelid disorder characterized by floppy tarsal plates that may be caused by a loss of elastin. The authors attempted to create floppy eyelids by digesting elastin from cadaveric tarsus and then treated them with cross-linking using ultraviolet A and riboflavin. METHODS Nine right and 9 left upper eyelids were excised from cadavers. Four vertical strips of central tarsus were removed from each eyelid. One strip of tarsus from each eyelid was treated with 10 units/ml of elastase for 2 hours. Another tarsal strip from each eyelid was immersed in normal saline for 2 hours (control). A third strip from the same eyelid was cross-linked using ultraviolet A at 6 mW/cm for 18 minutes. Finally, a fourth strip of tarsus was cross-linked in the same manner following treatment with elastase for 2 hours. A microtensile load cell was used to measure the Young modulus (stiffness) of each tissue. RESULTS Mean (standard deviation) Young modulus for controls (18.9 ± 3.6 MPa) was significantly higher than samples treated with elastase alone (6.6 ± 3.8 MPa, p less then 0.01). Samples that were treated with cross-linking after elastase had a mean (standard deviation) Young modulus of 26 ± 2.3 MPa, while those treated with cross-linking alone had a mean (standard deviation) Young modulus of 34 ± 0.15 MPa. The differences in stiffness between all groups were significant (p less then 0.01). DISCUSSION Treatment with elastase significantly reduces the stiffness of tarsal plates. This effect is reversed by cross-linking, raising the possibility of using this modality for the treatment of FES.