Darren Cordon

NHS Clinical Leadership Fellow

PG Leadership & Service Improvement, BSc (Hons) Audiology, Chief Audiologist, Hearing Services Department, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, LE1 5WW, UK.

Latest Contribution

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Is Gamma Knife Surgery effective for intracanalicular vestibular schwannomas?

8 January 2024 | | ENT | otolaryngology, Otology, gamma knife surgery, hearing preservation, intracanalicular vestibular schwannoma, predictors of outcome, tumor volume preservation

Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are rare, occurring in approximately five per 100,000 adults a year. In circa 8% of cases, the VS is contained within the internal auditory canal, i.e. intracanalicular (iVS). Although radiosurgery is a recognised treatment modality for VSs,...

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Strength of evidence in otolaryngology research – do women make the difference?

3 July 2023 | | ENT | evidence-based medicine, levels of evidence, randomized controlled trials, research

Clinicians around the world understand the need for research and publication of gathered evidence to inform practice and improve patient outcomes. The introduction of the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (CEBM) Levels of Evidence guideline in 2011, has been invaluable...

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Sudden sensorineural hearing loss – who will get better?

4 May 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Neurotology, Otology | idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, multivariate analysis, nomogram, prediction, prognostic factors

Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) is a rare but potentially devastating condition. For patients presenting with this condition, prognosis is of paramount importance. Wu et al begin to address this issue by retrospectively studying 17 potential prognostic factors for...