Maxillary sinus antrostomy Pitfalls

Endoscopic sinus surgery which is the commonly performed nasal surgery has its own problems ifnot performed properly. Success of maxillay sinus antrostomy depends on including the naturalostium to the antrostomy. For this to happen the natural ostium should be identified during thesurgical procedure. Common cause of failure in endoscopic sinus surgery is the failure to addressthe uncinate process. In all cases it should be removed completely before proceeding further.

The Euler anomaly and scale factors in Liouville/Toda CFTs

The role played by the Euler anomaly in the dictionary relating sphere partition functions of four dimensional theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ and two dimensional nonrational CFTs is clarified. On the two dimensional side, this involves a careful treatment of scale factors in Liouville/Toda correlators. Using ideas from tinkertoy constructions for Gaiotto duality, a framework is proposed for evaluating these scale factors. The representation theory of Weyl groups plays a critical role in this framework.Comment: 55 pages, 16 figures; v2:fixed referencing & typos ; v3: argument about scale factors in Liouville/Toda now phrased in terms of stripped correlators, leading to a sharper conjecture (earlier version had some inaccurate statements). Presentation improved, typos fixed, refs added. I thank the anonymous referee for comments. Version accepted for publication in JHE

Eosinophilic otitis media a literature review

Eosinophilic otitis media is actually a recent introduction. These patients may manifest with sudden hearing loss. There may be associated bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis. Diagnostic criteria of this condition are rather vague. A review of literature shows that demonstration of eosinophils in the middle ear secretion of these patients could be considered to be pathognomonic of this condition

Describing codimension two defects

Codimension two defects of the $(0,2)$ six dimensional theory $\mathscr{X}[\mathfrak{j}]$ have played an important role in the understanding of dualities for certain $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs in four dimensions. These defects are typically understood by their behaviour under various dimensional reduction schemes. In their various guises, the defects admit partial descriptions in terms of singularities of Hitchin systems, Nahm boundary conditions or Toda operators. Here, a uniform dictionary between these descriptions is given for a large class of such defects in $\mathscr{X}[\mathfrak{j}], \mathfrak{j} \in A,D,E$.Comment: 74pp, lots of tables detailing order reversing duality; (v2) Acknowledgement added. Notation simplified, refs added, minor fixes ; (v3) Minor changes, version accepted in JHEP. I thank the referee for helpful comments towards improving presentatio

Proptosis due to otolaryngology causes a study

Proximity of orbit to nose and paranasal sinuses makes it rather vulnerable to insults due to otolaryngological causes. The medial wall of orbit (Lamina papyracea) is rather paper thin and ithappens to form the lateral wall of anterior ethmoid air cells. Infections / tumors involving paranasal sinuses can involve orbit also causing proptosis. The aim of the article is to study thecommon otolaryngological causes of proptosis in our Institution during 2009 – 2012.