Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A Urrutikoetxea Sarriegui.
Psychogenic dysphonies are those vocal disorders with a psychologic background as paramount etiology. Among those disturbances the hysterical aphony/dysphony is the most representative entity. Although the diagnosis is not difficult doubts arises when treatment is contemplated. The AA. have realized a survey of the clinical pictures and characteristics of the problem in view of several therapeutical approaches.
Report on the clinical picture of a Paget's disease with predominant alterations of the temporal bone, producing a mixed deafness and tinnitus. The AA. take advantage of this opportunity for describe briefly the chief bone dystrophies that could evolve in the temporal bone.
Management of unilateral recurrent palsies is under review since the late 5 years. Intracordal injection of Teflon has been the best option from the 70s onward. With the arrival of other substances the question about which of them offers the most confident results is open. Nowadays the reinnervation of the larynx either with nerves of the neighbourhood or neuromuscular pedicles takes a preferential place. A group of AA. are proposing the so called "laryngeal framework surgery", that is to say, the surgery done with elements surrounding the larynx, as elective treatment. This paper exposes the several techniques and its particularities in order to present a panoramic view of the therapeutical issues of recurrential unilateral paralysis.
A technique for closing small tympanic perforations with a fat graft taken from the ear lobe is described. Our results and those of other authors are summarized and the advantages of the technique are detailed.