Journal Reviews

How effective and safe is audiologist-led screening of acoustic neuroma in patients with asymmetrical hearing loss and unilateral tinnitus?

1 March 2019 | | Otology | Acoustic, Audiology, Costs and Cost Analysis, Mass Screening, Neuroma, Tinnitus

About two out of 100 patients presenting with asymmetric hearing and unilateral tinnitus have acoustic neuroma. The traditional method in which these patients first attend a clinician and then undergo screening through an MRI, can be expensive and prolong the...

A comparison of same day with staged bilateral cartilage graft tympanoplasty for tubotympanic CSOM

1 July 2017 | | Cartilage, Costs and Cost Analysis, Otitis Media, Tympanoplasty

This randomised, controlled study compares the tympanoplasty outcomes in two groups of patients: one undergoing bilateral tympanoplasty on the same day (18 patients, 36 ears) and the other having the same procedure done on different days, with a gap of...