The term "nasal glioma" is a confusing misnomer as it implies a neoplastic condition with malignant potential, which it is not. Nasal glioma is a rare development abnormality and should be differentiated from glioma, which is a malignant tumor of the brain, and from a primary encephalocele, which is herniation of the cranial contents through a bone defect in the skull, through which it retains an intact connection with the central nervous system. Two cases of nasal glioma, one with and one without intracranial connections, are described and the literature is reviewed.

Fibrous dysplasia is a rare but interesting benign condition of the bones which affects either a single bone or multiple bones, with or without endocrine abnormalities. Only 75 cases affecting the temporal bone have been reported in the world literature, and to these we add another case. Although systemic involvement in the form of endocrine abnormalities and skin pigmentation has been reported in the past, no case has yet been reported with a congenitally absent kidney in the monostotic form of the disease.

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Reconstruction of stenosis of the hypopharyngoesophageal region poses a major surgical challenge and involves laryngectomy or pharyngolaryngectomy with a wide variety of reconstructing procedures. One patient with postcricoid stenosis which resulted from treatment by radiotherapy for postcricoid carcinoma four years earlier and another patient with congenital hypopharyngoesophageal stricture underwent repair of stenosis without laryngectomy using sternomastoidmyocutaneous flap. Although it is a small series of two cases, this proved to be a safe, easy, single-stage procedure which does not require laryngectomy and so saves the patient's normal speech. Stenosis. 1987; 7(4): 312-315 MeSH M Younus, Single-Stage Reconstruction of Hypopharyngoesophageal