Eccrine poroma is described as a benign neoplasm originating from the intraepidermal eccrine duct of sweat glands. This tumor is known to arise in bare skin areas, but more rarely appeared in head and neck region. A 54-year-old female presented with a mass on the retroauricular aspect of the left auricle. There was a soft, protruding, and purple-colored, solitary mass of about 1.0×1.0 cm in size. After authors performed an excisional biopsy, eccrine poroma was confirmed histopathologically. Thus, we report a rare case of eccrine poroma of the ear with the review of literature.
We investigated a novel, minimally invasive surgery that uses an absorbable suture technique to treat snoring and mild obstructive sleep apnea. This simple procedure was developed to increase the stiffness of the soft palate and to promote uvula elevation with sutures. Thirty-five snorer and mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome patients were included in this study. The palate was sutured with the newly developed technique. The results of our surgery were evaluated using polysomnography (PSG), the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), and a visual analogue scale (VAS) before surgery and 90 days after surgery. One year after surgery, telephone interviews were performed to assess patient satisfaction. Postoperative physical examinations of all patients showed increased stiffness of the soft palate and superiorly displaced uvula. These findings were consistent after the postoperative day 90. The patients' snoring symptoms and their bed partners' complaints, assessed by ESS and VAS, significantly improved compared to the pre-treatment value (p < 0.05). Additionally, the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), assessed by PSG, was significantly improved compared to the pre-treatment value (p < 0.05). Based on the results from the telephone interviews analyzed 1 year after surgery, about 88 % of patients were satisfied with the outcome. This minimally invasive snoreplasty that uses absorbable suture material is an effective and simple procedure for treating snoring and mild obstructive sleep apnea.
There has been no literature that reports a case of sino-nasal malignancy associated with polyurethane implants. However, several previous in vitro and animal model studies revealed that polyurethane implants may cause malignancy in body tissue. In this report, we describe a case of maxillary sinus spindle cell sarcoma diagnosed in a 59-year-old man who had undergone polyurethane nasal packing in the nasal cavity following endoscopic sinus surgery two years ago. Complete removal of the packing material was not confirmed as the patient has not returned for postoperative care. Although there are no direct evidence of association between this spindle cell sarcoma case and polyurethane nasal packing, surgeons should be alert to the complete removal of polyurethane nasal packing after sino-nasal surgery.
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