John F. Daly

Current Management of Corrosive Esophagitis

Corrosive esophagitis has been and remains, in the eyes of many clinicians, a tedious and hopeless entity. Through the years a variety of clinical studies have been presented and methods of treatment have been evolved to try to restore a functioning esophagus without endangering the patients life. These have been reported with varying degrees of optimism and pessimism. In the same period, controlled laboratory studies have been conducted to more accurately assess the pathologic process, and the factors that might influence or alter this process favorably.

Temporal bone findings in hemifacial microsomia.

— The temporal bone findings in a case of hemifacial microsomia are described with photographs. The right facial hypoplasia was associated with anophthalmia and microtia on the same side. The right petrous bone was hypoplastic and showed total superior dehiscence of the internal acoustic meatus. The otic capsule was deformed with an underdeveloped cochlear modiolus grossly deficient in spiral ganglion population. The spiralling cochlear shell showed partial deficiency of the interscalar septum between the middle and apical coils. The cochlear duct was shorter than that on the normal side; the organ of Corti however was normal. The vestibular system did not show any structural abnormality except for the degeneration and reduction of the Scarpas ganglion cells and nerve fibers. An additional interesting fact was that the facial nerve was totally absent in the temporal bone except for its nervus intermedius component.