{"title":"Acute intestinal obstruction due to duodenal metastasis of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A CARE case report","authors":"Y. Lelonge , A. Havasi , N. Williet , B. Le Roy","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To report a case of duodenal metastasis of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma revealed by acute intestinal obstruction.</div></div><div><h3>Case report</h3><div>A 55-year-old male was initially treated for cT4N1M0 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma, with total laryngectomy, bilateral neck dissection, total thyroidectomy and pectoralis major flap. Subsequently, he received radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Then, he was periodically monitored, with clinical examination and cervicothoracic CT, according to guidelines. Three years later, he presented acute intestinal obstruction. Abdominal CT revealed a 35<!--> <!-->mm obstructive duodenal tumor involving the head of the pancreas. Gastroscopy enabled biopsies, which confirmed metastasis of the laryngeal carcinoma. After gastro-entero-anastomosis, a first line treatment with cisplatin, 5-fluorouracile and pembrozilumab was started. It was complicated by abdominal bleeding, which required inferior duodenopancreatic artery embolization and colic perforation requiring colectomy. Due to deterioration in general health, 2 injections of pembrozilumab alone were made. Then, because of progression, the patient received 1 second-line injection of docetaxel. He finally died of acute pancreatitis, 7 months after diagnosis.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Duodenal metastasis of squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx is rare but possible. This case report highlights the importance of clinical and radiological monitoring, particularly in locally advanced tumor.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":"142 4","pages":"Pages 201-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cervical resection of Zenker's diverticulum","authors":"C.-A. Righini , C. Fabre , M. Makeieff","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Treatment for symptomatic Zenker's diverticulum is surgical. This has greatly progressed in recent years and two surgical approaches are possible: the external or cervical approach, and the other, more recent, endoscopic approach. Both are based on sectioning the cricopharyngeal muscle. The majority of authors recommend an endoscopic approach in first line, reserving open surgery for cases in which exposure of the diverticular collar is impossible or endoscopic surgery has failed. There are therefore still indications for open surgery, and this technique must be perfectly mastered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":"142 4","pages":"Pages 213-216"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IgG4-related disease of the middle ear in a pediatric patient","authors":"L. Kusevic , M. Ulamec , T. Greguric , J. Ajduk","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":"142 4","pages":"Pages 219-220"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Al Hakim , P. Beyssen , X. Dufour , F. Carsuzaa
{"title":"A case of recalcitrant epistaxis","authors":"E. Al Hakim , P. Beyssen , X. Dufour , F. Carsuzaa","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":"142 4","pages":"Pages 217-218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143812740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Marx, S Taoui, I Mosnier, F Venail, M Mondain, A Uziel, D Bakhos, E Lescanne, Y NGuyen, D Bernardeschi, O Sterkers, B Godey, G Creff, S Schmerber, N-X Bonne, C Vincent, B Fraysse, O Deguine, B Lepage
{"title":"Binaural performance in 155 adults with single-sided or asymmetric profound hearing loss: A STROBE analysis.","authors":"M Marx, S Taoui, I Mosnier, F Venail, M Mondain, A Uziel, D Bakhos, E Lescanne, Y NGuyen, D Bernardeschi, O Sterkers, B Godey, G Creff, S Schmerber, N-X Bonne, C Vincent, B Fraysse, O Deguine, B Lepage","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To estimate the proportion of subjects with single-sided or asymmetric profound hearing loss who achieve normal binaural performance, and to identify their specific demographic and audiological characteristics.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A French nationwide multicenter cross-sectional study included 155 subjects with single-sided or asymmetric profound hearing loss between 2014 and 2018. Speech-in-noise reception was assessed on the FraMatrix test in diotic, dichotic and reverse dichotic conditions to determine the signal-to-noise ratio allowing 50% correct reception. Sound localization was evaluated using a 180° 7-speaker horizontal array around the subject, to measure the root mean square error. The article was written following STROBE guidelines.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Nineteen of the 155 subjects with single-sided (n=104) or asymmetric profound hearing loss (n=51) achieved normal scores for diotic speech reception in noise (i.e., critical signal-to-noise ratio better than -4.8dB), and 9 subjects (7.1%) had normal sound localization (i.e.,<30° error). In the 44 subjects (28.4%) with normal or near-normal diotic signal-to-noise ratio (better than -3dB), had significantly better hearing thresholds in the better ear, and notably for high frequencies between 2 and 4kHz.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, 7.1% to almost 30% of subjects with single-sided or asymmetric profound hearing loss showed normal or near-normal binaural performance. Their main distinguishing audiological feature was better hearing thresholds in the better ear, which suggests compensatory strategies based on monaural spectral cues.</p>","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What happened to the capsule?","authors":"K Al Tabaa, L Morin, B Faucon","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic anterior sinus atelectasis due to middle meatus retraction.","authors":"M Veyrat, M P Tuset, A Tran, M Callet","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Chronic sinus atelectasis is a rare but classical etiology in maxillary sinusitis. Advanced forms induce orbital deformities. Here we report a case of chronic maxillary-ethmoidal-frontal sinus atelectasis, and detail treatment.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>A 59 year-old man was referred for recurrent right periorbital pain with 2 years' progression, resistant to local corticosteroid treatment. Clinically, there was right middle turbinate lateralization and ipsilateral enophthalmos. CT showed filling of the right maxillary, anterior ethmoidal and frontal sinuses, with characteristic anterior chronic sinus atelectasis features: retraction of the thinned sinus walls, and decreased sinus volume, confirmed on 3D MRI. Functional ethmoidectomy resolved the obstruction caused by the atelectasis and relieved the patient's pain.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This was an original case of chronic sinus atelectasis implicating the middle meatus, with equal involvement of all three anterior sinuses. It highlights the importance of surgical treatment of all the involved sinuses, to stop progression and prevent recurrence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144295162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J-B Morvan, J-B Caruhel, C Parietti-Winkler, A Crambert
{"title":"High-intensity conflict: Military and civilian head-and-neck specialists, getting ready to meet the challenge.","authors":"J-B Morvan, J-B Caruhel, C Parietti-Winkler, A Crambert","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anorl.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V Masson, P L Nguyen-Thi, P Gallet, R Jankowski, C Rumeau, D T Nguyen
{"title":"Assessment of two olfactory training methods for post-COVID-19 loss of olfaction: Classical and intensive.","authors":"V Masson, P L Nguyen-Thi, P Gallet, R Jankowski, C Rumeau, D T Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.04.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anorl.2025.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To determine whether intensive olfactory training provides better chances of recovery than classic protocols in persistent dysosmia after Covid-19.</p><p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In the literature, olfactory training holds pride of place in the management of post-infection olfactory disorder, with a classic 4-odor protocol. On the other hand, few studies have assessed the benefit of more intensive training.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>This prospective randomized clinical trial (No. 2020-A01397-32) assessed olfactory training for persistent dysosmia due to COVID-19, with 5 weeks' to 12 months' progression. Patients were divided between 2 groups, receiving a classical 4-odor protocol (n=49) or an intensive 8-odor protocol (n=30). Olfaction was assessed in consultation on the Sniffin' Sticks test, the DyNaChron self-reported olfaction questionnaire and a visual analogue scale (VAS), at inclusion (V1) and at 4 and 8 months (V2 and V3, respectively).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both protocols significantly improved subjective olfactory assessment on VAS, with non-significant trends for improvement on psychophysical tests. There was no significant difference in olfactory recovery between the classic and intensive protocols. Adhesion to the training program decreased markedly beyond 4 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Intensive olfactory training did not increase the chances of olfactory recovery compared to the classic protocol in a population with persistent dysosmia following COVID-19 infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144095397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide attempts in patients treated by total laryngectomy or total pharyngolaryngectomy in France.","authors":"T Vermeulin, A Zago, V Merle, A Augustynen","doi":"10.1016/j.anorl.2025.03.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anorl.2025.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48834,"journal":{"name":"European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144044140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}