October 2010

Editorial Board
Published in issue: October 2010
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Review

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of intracranial nerve: A case series review
• Arbia Ziadi,
• Issam Saliba
Published in issue: October 2010
p539-545

Original papers

Quality of life of patients following stages III–IV vestibular schwannoma surgery using the retrosigmoid and translabyrinthine approaches
• Charbel Rameh,
• Jacques Magnan
Published in issue: October 2010
p546-552

Hearing threshold assessment in young children with electrocochleograpy (EcochG) and auditory brainstem responses (ABR): Experience at the University Hospital of Ferrara
• C. Aimoni,
• A. Ciorba,
• R. Bovo,
• P. Trevisi,
• M. Busi,
• A. Martini
Published in issue: October 2010
p553-557

The impact of arterial sclerosis on hearing with and without occupational noise exposure: A population-based aging study in males
• Mayumi Yoshioka,
• Yasue Uchida,
• Saiko Sugiura,
• ...
• Hiroshi Shimokata,
• Hideki Nomura,
• Tsutomu Nakashima
Published in issue: October 2010
p558-564

Role of subjective visual vertical test during eccentric rotation in the recovery phase of vestibular neuritis
• Jae Yong Byun,
• Seok Min Hong,
• Seung Geun Yeo,
• Sang Hoon Kim,
• Sung Wan Kim,
• Moon Suh Park
Published in issue: October 2010
p565-569

Directional preponderance of vertical eye movements induced by cross-axis adaptation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex in the cat
• Hiroaki Fushiki,
• Motoyoshi Maruyama,
• Yukio Watanabe
Published in issue: October 2010
p570-574

Impaired olfactory function in mice with allergic rhinitis
• Shinya Ozaki,
• Kazunori Toida,
• Motohiko Suzuki,
• ...
• Kazuyoshi Kitaoka,
• Hiroyoshi Sei,
• Shingo Murakami
Published in issue: October 2010
p575-583

Overexpression of glucocorticoid receptor-β in severe allergic rhinitis
• Akihiro Ishida,
• Nobuo Ohta,
• Shuji Koike,
• Masaru Aoyagi,
• Mitsunori Yamakawa
Published in issue: October 2010
p584-588

Comparison of radiofrequency applied to the total inferior choncha with application to its anterior third
• Şenol Civelek,
• Müge Özçelik,
• İsmet Emrah Emre,
• Burak Ömür Çakır,
• Suat Turgut
Published in issue: October 2010
p589-593

Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus haemolyticus in tonsillar cultures of adults with acute pharyngotonsillitis
• Muneki Hotomi,
• Masamitsu Kono,
• Akihisa Togawa,
• ...
• Masashi Ogami,
• Timothy F. Murphy,
• Noboru Yamanaka
Published in issue: October 2010
p594-600

Transoral laser surgery for anterior commissure involvement: A study in canines
• Guangbin Sun,
• Haihong Tang,
• Alicia J. Sprecher,
• ...
• Qin Fang,
• Gengtian Liang,
• Shuimiao Zhou
Published in issue: October 2010
p601-608

Inverted epiglottis: A postoperative complication of supracricoid laryngectomy with cricohyoidoepiglottopexy
• Meijin Nakayama,
• Makito Okamoto,
• Yutomo Seino,
• ...
• Takashi Masaki,
• Satoru Yokobori,
• Masahiko Takeda
Published in issue: October 2010
p609-614

Adenoid cystic carcinomas of minor salivary glands
• Thomas Mücke,
• Andrea Tannapfel,
• Marco R. Kesting,
• ...
• Luisa K. Robitzky,
• Klaus-Dietrich Wolff,
• Frank Hölzle
Published in issue: October 2010
p615-620

Parapharyngeal space tumors: Anatomical and image analysis findings
• Satoshi Shirakura,
• Atsunobu Tsunoda,
• Keiichi Akita,
• ...
• Masami Suzuki,
• Taro Sugimoto,
• Seiji Kishimoto
Published in issue: October 2010
p621-625

Short communication

Local hypothermia in the treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
• Naohito Hato,
• Jun Hyodo,
• Shoichiro Takeda,
• ...
• Masahiro Okada,
• Nobuhiro Hakuba,
• Kiyofumi Gyo
Published in issue: October 2010
p626-630

Case reports

A middle ear implant with a titanium canal wall prosthesis for a case of an open mastoid cavity
• Arnaud Deveze,
• Charbel Rameh,
• Mélanie Sanjuan,
• Jean-Pierre Lavieille,
• Jacques Magnan
Published in issue: October 2010
p631-635

A case of chronic otitis media caused by Mycobacterium abscessus
• Hisashi Sugimoto,
• Makoto Ito,
• Miyako Hatano,
• Yosuke Nakanishi,
• Yumiko Maruyama,
• Tomokazu Yoshizaki
Published in issue: October 2010
p636-639

A case of myoepithelioma of the nasal cavity
• Kazuhiro Nakaya,
• Takeshi Oshima,
• Mika Watanabe,
• ...
• Yohei Honkura,
• Yosuke Hara,
• Toshimitsu Kobayashi
Published in issue: October 2010
p640-643

Evaluation of swallowing pressure in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis before and after cricopharyngeal myotomy using high-resolution manometry system
• Kenji Takasaki,
• Hiroshi Umeki,
• Kaori Enatsu,
• Hidetaka Kumagami,
• Haruo Takahashi
Published in issue: October 2010
p644-647

Detection of novel Human papilloma virus type 82 in laryngeal cancer: case report
• G. Pannone,
• F. Sanguedolce,
• A. Santoro,
• ...
• L. Lo Muzio,
• S. Metafora,
• P. Bufo
Published in issue: October 2010
p648-650

Thrombophlebitis of the head and neck: Report of two cases
• Masahiro Nakayama,
• Keiji Tabuchi,
• Masatake Nomura,
• ...
• Takashi Yamaguchi,
• Hideki Okubo,
• Akira Hara
Published in issue: October 2010
p651-655

True aneurysm of the facial artery
• Eriko Hoshi,
• Shigehiro Owaki,
• Fumio Ogawa,
• Jun Fukui,
• Takao Ogawa,
• Takeshi Shimizu
Published in issue: October 2010
p656-658