Stenting airway is not only a life saving procedure but also facilitates rapid healing.

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Steeple's sign is seen in antero posterior radiographs of soft tissues of neck.

Narrowed subglottic air column produces an inverted "V" which resembles the steeple of a church.

This is commonly seen in patients with croup.

Upgraded Institute of Otolaryngology Madras Medical College has launched a Souvenir in commemoration of 175th year anniversary of the college.

This article describes the role of microdebrider in nasal surgery.

Microdebriders have revolutionized nasal surgery.

This article describes the use of this instrument in nasal surgery.

Tinnitus is defined as sound in the ear / head without external stimulus.

Managing tinnitus is an arduous task. There is still no single modality management for this problem.

This article discusses the role of Amytryptiline a tricyclic antidepressant in the managment of tinnitus.

Bifid inferior turbinate is a very rare anatomical variation. Literature documents only 2 such cases till date. Researchers consider bifid inferior turbinate to be an anamoly involving the uncinate process, since uncinate process was found to be absent in these patients.

Leptin which is an antiobesity protein is also suspected to play a role in the pathophysiology of nasal polyposis. <p>
The term leptin is derived from the Greek work leptos which means thin.

Frontal sinus is a highly variable structure anatomically.

Study of these variations is imperative in avoiding surgical complications during frontal sinus surgery.

Multiplanar imaging of sinuses has thrown a lot of light on these variations.

Vocal cord mucosal lesions always heals with scar formation causing irrepairable damage to voice.

If the scarring involves the vocal ligament then it becomes nearly impossible to treat this condition.

To over come this problem Gray etal in 1999 introduced the "Gray's Minithyrotomy" procedure.

In this procedure through a small external incision access to the vocal fold mucosa could be obtained without resorting to mucosal incision.

Usually dissection is performed along the long axis of the vocal fold recreating the Reinke's space in the bargain.