The nasal surgeries are clean contamined and do not need antibioticprophilaxy because of the low infection risk.

There are some reports of localized amyloidosis in the larynx, an entity that corresponds to one percent of all benign tumors of this region. However, there are only two cases of amyloidosis in the Waldeyer's ring 6, 13, 14. We hereby describe a rare case of amyloidosis in areas not associated with the upper aero-digestive tract: tonsil pillar, rhinopharynx, supraglottis and glottis, without visible continuity of amyloid tissue. We will also discuss post-operative follow up with severe dysphagia.

Post-operatory complications in adenotonsillectomyResumo / SummaryAdenoi dectomia e amigdalectomia são as cirurgias mais freqüentemente realizadas na prática otorrinolaringológica diária. Em geral, são procedimentos seguros, que não requerem internação prolongada. Em nosso serviço, o paciente recebe alta hospitalar cerca de seis horas após a intervenção, e são utilizadas diferentes técnicas cirúrgicas. Objetivo: Avaliar a segurança da liberação do paciente no mesmo dia e as complicações pós-operatórias, e compará-las às técnicas cirúrgicas utilizadas. Forma de estudo: Clínico prospectivo. Material e Método: Avaliamos prospectivamente 147 pacientes submetidos a adenoidectomia e/ou amigdalectomia por três técnicas diferentes no Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP. Um protocolo foi aplicado pelo médico que realizou a cirurgia no pós-operatório imediato, após uma semana e um mês, pesquisando a presença de episódios de sangramento, febre, náuseas, vômitos, dor, disfagia a líquidos e a sólidos. Resultados: A incidência de hemorragia pós-operatória foi de 7,48% no primeiro pós-operatório. Houve sangramento discreto em 3,4% dos pacientes durante a primeira semana. Não houve diferença estatística entre os grupos em relação à técnica cirúrgica utilizada, quanto às complicações estudadas. Conclusão: A liberação do paciente após 6 horas de cirurgia é uma conduta segura. Como não há diferença estatística quanto às complicações de acordo com a técnica cirúrgica utilizada, acreditamos que o cirurgião deva utilizar a técnica com a qual é mais familiarizado. Adenoi dectomy and tonsillectomy are the most frequent surgeries been practice by otorhinolaryngologists. Usually adenotonsillectomy is a safe procedure, which does not request long hospitalization. In our service, patients are discharged from hospital about 6 hours after the end of the procedure. We regularly apply different surgical techniques for tonsillectomy. Aim: To evaluate the safeness of a day hospital system, and post-operatory complications, correlating them with the surgical techniques applied. Study design: Clinical prospective. Material and Method: We evaluated prospectively 147 patients submitted to tonsillectomies in our service. We applied three different techniques. The surgeon applied a protocol on the same day, a week and a month after procedure, inquiring about the occurrence of bleeding, fever, nausea, vomits, pain and inability to eat or drink. Results: The post-operatory incidence of bleeding was 7,48% in the first day after procedure. Small amount of bleeding occurred in 3,4% cases during the first week. No statistic difference was found correlating the surgical techniques applied and rated complications. Conclusions: Discharging patients from hospital 6 hours after surgery is a safe procedure. Considering that we found no statistic difference between the related complications and the surgical technique applied, we believe the surgeon must utilize his well-known technique.Palavras-chave: tonsilectomia, complicações cirúrgicas, hemorragia.

Há na literatura inúmeras descrições de amiloidose limitada à laringe, sendo que esta afecção corresponde a cerca de 1% dos tumores benignos da laringe. Entretanto, há somente três relatos de amiloidose acometendo a região do anel de Waldeyer. Descreveremos um raro caso de amiloidose em que há acometimento de sítios distintos do trato aéreo-digestivo superior: pilar amigdaliano, rinofaringe, supraglote e glote, sem continuidade aparente do tecido amilóide. Abordaremos, também, o seguimento pós-operatório com uma disfagia grave.

The use of antibiotics is a common practice among otorhinolaryngogists for surgical procedures. The majority of the American Rhinology Society members uses postoperative antibiotics routinely in septoplasties, which is considered unnecessary by many authors. Aim: To study the real necessity of the antibiotic usage in septoplasties, as well as the main post-operative complications described in the literature. Study design: clinical prospective with transversal cohort. Material and Method: We studied prospectively 35 patients who were undergone to septoplasty with or without turbinectomy, in the Clinical Hospital of the University of São Paulo. The patients were splited in three groups: Group A: without antibiotics; Group B: antibiotics (cefazolin) only during the anesthesical induction; Group C: antibiotics both in the anesthesical induction and post-operatively for seven days. A questionnaire was applied in the immediate postoperatory, in the 7th post-operative day and in the 30th post-operative day asking for bleeding, fever, pain, nauseas, vomits and followed by physical and endoscopic evaluation looking for hematoma, septal abscess and purulent secretion which as quantified. Result: We do not observed significative difference among the groups concerning to pain, fever, nauseas, vomits, bleeding and purulent secretion. None of the patients had hematoma or septal abscess. The groups also do not differ in respect to the quantity of purulent secretion. Conclusion: The nasal surgeries are clean contamined and do not need antibioticprophilaxy because of the low infection risk.

SUMMARYA thirty three year-old, male patient was admitted at the Hospital of the São Paulo University School of Medicine, at the city of São Paulo, Brazil, with complaint of pains, tingling and decreased sensibility in the right hand for the last four months. This had progressed to the left hand, left foot and right foot, in addition to a difficulty of flexing and stretching in the left foot. Tests were positive for HBeAg, IgM anti-HBc and HBsAg, thus characterizing the condition of acute hepatitis B. The ALT serum level was 15 times above the upper normal limit. Blood glucose, cerebral spinal fluid, antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and anti-HIV and anti-HCV serum tests were either normal or negative. Electroneuromyography disclosed severe peripheral neuropathy with an axon prevalence and signs of denervation; nerve biopsy disclosed intense vasculitis. The diagnosis of multiple confluent mononeuropathy associated to acute hepatitis B was done. This association is not often reported in international literature and its probable cause is the direct action of the hepatitis B virus on the nerves or a vasculitis of the vasa nervorum brought about by deposits of immune complexes.