E D I T O R I A L   During 2009 the G Portmann Institute organizes 2 sessions on the problem of ronchopathy. First of all a session reserved to the French private ENT under the French CME and very quickly after the 6th meeting organized by Doctor Pierre-Jean Monteyrol on the problems of facial growth and sleep disorders. The wellknown Professor Christian Guilleminault from Stanford University is coming for the third time. The ORL are increasingly numerous to be interested in these problems and they are right. Indeed on the one hand they must answer a growing request of the patients and in the other hand they must preserve fields which belongs to their activity at least relating to the surgical aspects of the oral cavity, the oropharynx as well as the nasal cavities. Well, on all the patients are not to operate but much of them are to be explored to diagnose the sleep apneic syndrome. They are capable to propose these explorations, to carry them out and to interpret them. The speciality of somnologist will be able to even attract some ORL and it will be for best for our speciality. Didier PORTMANN

CONTENT of current Issue N# 3 - 2009

MAIN ARTICLE CANCER • Quality of life after radical surgery and radiotherapy for advanced or recurrent laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers Dequanter D, Lothaire P, Eekhout D, Dheur S, Colin M, Andry G. (Bruxelles) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:145-149. Downloadable PDF document in french OTOLOGY • The relevance of Choukroun’s Platelet-Rich Fibrin (PRF) during middle ear surgery: Preliminary results Braccini F, Tardivet L, Dohan Ehrenfest DM. (Nice) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:175-180. Downloadable PDF document in french OTONEUROLOGY • Long-term results of facial palsy’s rehabilitation by end-to-end hypoglossal-facial anastomosis Pons Y, Gauthier J, Dagain A, Conessa C, Clement Ph, Desgeorges M, Poncet JL. (Paris) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:169-174. Downloadable PDF document in french PLASTIC SURGERY • Study of the platysma coli muscle vascularisation by the facial artery. Implication during the elevation of the musculo-cutaneous plastyma coli muscle flap Cartier C, Jouzdani E, Garrel R, Makeieff M, Crampette L, Guerrier B. (Montpellier) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:139-144. Downloadable PDF document in french RHINOLOGY • The uses of computer-assisted surgical navigation in trans-nasal pituitary gland surgery Hitier M, Hibon R, Candelier G. Guarnieri J, Moreau S, Babin E. (Caen) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:151-157. Downloadable PDF document in english • Endoscopic-assisted retrocaruncular approach for management of medial orbital wall lesions: A review of 6 cases Gauthier J, Conessa C, Pons Y, Meningaud J-P. (Paris, Créteil) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:159-162. Downloadable PDF document in french • Cytokines profile in cystic fibrosis patients with nasal polyps Nunes FB, Becker CG, Becker HMG, Araujo RN, Guimarães RES. (Belo Horizonte) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:163-167. Downloadable PDF document in english CLINICAL NOTE CERVICAL SURGERY • Cervical spondylodiskitis revealed by retropharyngeal abscess Charfeddine I, Hammami B, Charfeddine F, Chakroun A, Ghorbel A. (Sfax) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:185-188. Downloadable PDF document in french CERVICO-FACIAL SURGERY • A schwannoma of the hypoglossal nerve presenting as a malignant tumour of the oral floor Fakhry N, Turner F, Duflo S, Giovanni A, Zanaret M. (Marseille) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:189-191. Downloadable PDF document in english MAXILLO-FACIAL PAEDIATRICS • The EXIT procedure: Principles and application in congenital cervical teratomas Hitter A, Piolat C, Jacquier C, Thong Vanh C, Wroblewski I, Righini C.A. (Grenoble) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:191-198. Downloadable PDF document in french • The EXIT procedure: Principles and application in congenital cervical teratomas Hitter A, Piolat C, Jacquier C, Thong Vanh C, Wroblewski I, Righini C.A. (Grenoble) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:191-198. Downloadable PDF document in french MAXILLO-FACIAL SURGERY • Planned reconstruction after broad carcinological demolition of the face: Case report Norat F, Poissonnet G, Dassonville O, Dreant N, Lebreton E. (Nice) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:181-184. Downloadable PDF document in french OTOLOGY • Middle ear adenoma / carcinoid tumour: A case report and review of the literature Angouridakis N, Hytiroglou P, Markou K, Bouzakis A, Vital V. (Thessaloniki) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:199-202. Downloadable PDF document in english UPDATE AND NEW INSIGHTS ? IN MEMORIAM • In memoriam Antonio de la Cruz (Los Angeles) Portmann M. Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:208. OTOLOGY • The ENT in operations … The study of the vestibular function Ballester M. (Paris) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:205-207. Downloadable PDF document in french HOW I DO IT ? OTOLOGY • Type III ossiculoplasty with mastoid cortical bone – “in situ” shaping of the ossicle Ceccato S, Portmann D, Davis R. W. K. (Bordeaux) Ref. : Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol. 2009;130,3:203-204. Downloadable PDF document in english