Suzanne Jervis

ENT Consultant

FRCS (ORL HNS), Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals, NHS Trust, UK.

Latest Contribution

Playing hide and seek with parathyroid glands

1 March 2017 | | Hyperparathyroidism, Recurrence, Revision surgery

This article focuses on revision surgery with respect to parathyroid glands. Clearly the stakes are higher with respect to the patients’ risks, but also with respect to the revision surgeon in finding the offending gland in scar tissue, where someone...

Finding the elusive parathyroid glands

1 January 2017 | | Parathyroid glands anatomy, Recurrent laryngeal nerve, failed surgical explorations, Parathyroid gland embryology, ectopic locations, supernumerary glands

While reading in the literature about new advances in knowledge and surgical techniques, it is often easy to lose track of the longstanding knowledge that we all acquired during our training. This is why this article on the anatomy and...

Describing the most useful OSA assessment?

1 January 2017 | | sleep endoscopy, drug-induced sleep endoscopy, DISE, sleep nasendoscopy

This article sets out to comprehensibly describe drug induced sleep endoscopy and its role in determining the level of obstruction in patients with OSA. The advantages described include the fact that other techniques, including Muller’s manoeuvre, have significant variation in...