["Otinum" in the therapy of middle ear diseases]. / "Otinum" v lechenii zabolevanii srednego ukha.

Otinum, a new drug made in Poland, was used to treat inflammatory diseases of the middle ear of 40 patients. The drug was applied topically as drops or tampons inserted into the external acoustic meatus. As controls, 16 patients with identical problems, who were treated with 3% boric acid alcohol, were used. Otinum had a distinct pain-killing and anti-inflammatory effect, as well as a mild keratolytic effect. Otinum is recommended to be used for acute otitis media and exacerbated chronic otitis media in the absence of pathogenic microorganisms.

[Use of surgical Co2 lasers in pathological states of ENT organs]. / Primenenie khirurgicheskogo Co2-lazera pri nekotorykh patologicheskikhsostoianiiakh LOR-organov.

Carbon dioxide lasers were used in the surgical treatment of 46 patients with various ENT pathologies. They were: benign tumors of the stomatolaryngopharynx, and face, head, neck skin; cicatricial and paralytic stenoses of the larynx and trachea, cicatricial processes in the nasal cavity, chronic hypertrophic rhinitis, chronic hyperplastic lateral and granular pharyngitis. Romashka-II and Skalpel-I CO2 lasers were used, their exposure being 0.3 to 10 s and power being 8 to 80 W. Preliminary results suggest that this approach may be very beneficial.

[Microflora of the paratonsillar abscesses]. / Mikroflora paratonzilliarnykh abstsessov.

The species composition of aerobic and anaerobic microflora of paratonsillar abscesses was investigated in 20 patients. It was found that obligate nonspore-forming anaerobic bacteria predominated in the pus of the abscess cavity. Anaerobic infection was diagnosed rapidly by gas-liquid chromatography. Anaerobic bacteria were shown to be highly sensitive to clindamycin and metronidazol.