[Choristoma of the middle ear]

Choristoma is one of the varieties of congenital developmental anomalies, where one or another normal tissue of the body is located in an atypical place for itself. The short literary review of choristoma of middle ear is presented in article. A rare clinical cases of salivary gland choristoma of the middle ear (5-year-old girl with left-sided conductive hearing loss of III degree) and glial choristoma of the mastoid (19-year-old man with signs of chronic suppurative otitis media of the right ear) are described.

[Jugulotympane paraganglioma associated with polysegmentary congenital hemangioma]

The describes a clinical observation of a combination of jugulotympanic paraganglioma of the left temporal bone with multifocal congenital hemangioma. The interest of the case is that such a combination of pathologies is extremely rare. A comprehensive study and surgical treatment of a patient with this clinical diagnosis was carried out. In the diagnosis, objective otorhinolaryngological studies, otomicroscopy and MSCT of the temporal bones and MRI of the middle ear with contrast were used. Surgical intervention was performed under multicomponent anesthesia with tracheal intubation, transmastoid access. The postoperative management of the patient after surgical treatment is described.

[Experience with the use of izoptina]

The effect of isoptin was studied in 271 patients with ischemic heart disease and various disturbances of the cardiac rhythm. Clinical, functional indices and coronarographic findings proved the drug to be highly effective. The mechanism of its action is discussed.