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Isolated cricoid fracture is encountered rarely during the clinical follow-up. A 71-year-old female patient was referred to emergency service with complaints of fall from height, and urgent tracheotomy was performed due to dyspnea. During the examination, isolated fractures of the cricoid cartilage were identified. With the conservative approach, the patient remained symptom-free and was discharged after decannulation.

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the prevalence of allergic rhinitis and the relation between allergic rhinitis and the development of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and OSAS severity in patients with simple snoring and OSAS., Patients and Methods: A total of 80 patients (51 males, 29 females; mean age 45.4±8.1 years; range 18 to 69 years) who were admitted to our clinic with the complaints of snoring and nocturnal awakening and diagnosed with simple snoring and OSAS were included in the study and divided into four groups according to apnea-hypopnea indexes (AHIs) scores. The patients were interrogated about the presence of allergic rhinitis. Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) and prick tests were performed., Results: We found allergic rhinitis in 18 of the 80 (23%) patients. The house mites were found to be the causative allergen in 13 of the 18 (72%) patients., Conclusion: We recommend that the allergy symptoms such as nasal obstruction and sneezing should be added to the questions that are asked to the patients with simple snoring and OSAS and that the investigations should include the skin prick and RAST tests in these patients.

Diagnosis of foreign body in the nasal cavity may be difficult because it has a wide variety of presentations. Concha bullosa is defined as the pneumatization of the middle concha in various degrees. A 43-year-old female patient was admitted to our clinic with the complaint of breathing difficulty through her right nostril which had been going on for the last year. She had had some medical treatments previously in some different medical centers, there wasn't purulent discharge with unpleasant odour, bleeding and halitosis in the nose and there wasn't a history of a blow to the nose or a history of previous facial, nasal or dental surgery. In the computed tomography there was an image resembling concha bullosa. Transnasal endoscopic approach was used, under general anesthesia, in the patient, whose physical examination results, laboratory findings and allergy test results were normal. Endoscopic sinus surgery was performed including polypectomy, right uncinektomy and the foreign body was removed from the middle meatus using a forceps. No complications were observed in the follow-up control one month later.

Objectives: We evaluated the long-term results of radiofrequency-assisted posterior transverse cordotomy in a rabbit model., Study Design: Ten healthy New Zealand rabbits were subjected to videolaryngoscopic examination following intraperitoneal anesthesia with 20 mg/kg thiopental. After local infiltration anesthesia with lidocaine, a laryngofissure procedure and exposition of the vocal cords were carried out and posterior transverse cordotomy was performed to the right vocal cord in the cutting mode using radiofrequency waves (Ellman Surgitron). The thyroid cartilage was closed in anatomic position and the rabbits were followed-up for three months, after which videolaryngoscopic examination was repeated. The rabbits were then sacrificed for histopathologic examination., Results: At the end of the follow-up period, videolaryngoscopic examination showed neo-cordogenesis in the right vocal cord region. Histological examination showed closure of the operation site by granulation tissue and fibrosis., Conclusion: The opening created in the rabbit larynx using radiofrequency was filled by granulation tissue and fibrosis in the long-term.