Lumps and Bumps
Typically slow-growing mixed epithelial and myxoid stroma tumor of the parotid.
What is a pleomorphic adenoma?
Septal perforation/erosion is frequently seen in this autoimmune disease characterized by necrotizing granulomas with vasculitis of the upper and lower respiratory tract and focal necrotizing glomerulitis.
What is granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's granulomatosis)?
The best test for identifying presence of CSF in sinonasal fluid.
What is the Beta2-transferrin assay?
Unilateral episodic attacks of vertigo lasting minutes to hours with associated hearing loss.
What is Meniere's disease?
Thumbprint sign
What is the classic radiographic finding for epiglottitis?
Most common oral malignancy in patients with HIV.
What is Kaposi's sarcoma?
Sinus inflammation with nasal polyps, asthma, aspirin sensitivity.
What is the Samter triad (also called Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease)?
The blood supply to Kiesselbach's plexus (Little's area).
What are the sphenopalatine artery, the anterior ethmoidal artery, the greater palatine artery, and the superior labial artery?
Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss with or without tinnitus.
What is a classic presentation of a vestibular schwannoma?
Gold-standard swallowing evaluation of oral cavity and pharynx.
What is a videofluoroscopic/modified barium swallow study?
Most common melanoma subtype in the head and neck.
What is acral lentiginous melanoma?
Histologic and imaging hallmarks of allergic fungal rhinosinusitis.
What are the presence of allergic fungal mucin ('peanut-buttery' viscous mucus, histologically eosinophil-rich with some branching noninvasive fungal hyphae) and CT scan findings of (unilateral) sinus opacification with hyperintense areas and inhomogeneity +/- bony expansion/remodeling/thinning?
Components of the CLOSE mnemonic.
What are the cribiform plate, lamina papyracea, Onodi cell, sphenoid sinus pneumatization, and anterior ethmoid artery?
Common complications of tympanoplasty.
What are tympanic membrane graft lateralization/"pull away" from handle of the malleus, blunting of the anterior sulcus, tympanic membrane reperforation?
This is the structure labeled with an asterisk (see photo).
What is an infraorbital ethmoid (Haller) cell?
Llymphatic drainage of the oral cavity/most likely sites of nodal metastasis from oral cavity cancer.
What are cervical lymph node levels I, II, and III associated with?
IL-4, IL-5, IL-13.
What are the main cytokines involved in a Th2 allergic immune response?
The reservoir sign.
What is it called when CSF accumulates within a paranasal sinus that results in intermittent drainage related to changes in head position?
The area where a cochlear nerve implant goes (see photo).
What is the scala tympani (C)?
The area indicated by the asterisk (see photo).
What is the (ethmoid) infundibulum?
The ACR-TIRADS recommendations for FNA of thyroid lesions.
What are TIRADS 3 nodules ≥2.5 cm, TIRADS 4 ≥1.5 cm, and TIRADS 5 ≥1 cm?
Allergen tolerance pathway.
What is the pathway describing induction of Treg cells to secrete IL-10 and TGF-Beta, which suppresses Th2 cells and their cytokine production, leads to desensitization of effector cells, and induces plasma cell production of IgG4?
The "first transition space" in FESS, site of anterior ethmoid and maxillary ostia drainage.
What is the (ethmoid) infundibulum?
The histopathology shown on this slide (see photo).
What is obliterative otosclerosis?
The foramina marked with the pink and blue arrows (see photo).
What are the foramen ovale (pink arrow) and the foramen spinosum (blue arrow)?