Journal Reviews

Paediatric pituitary surgery - is it lagging behind?

1 May 2017 | | Kids Inpatient Database, hypophysectomy, pediatric pituitary resection, pituitary surgery, transsphenoidal

Endoscopic sellar surgery, especially for adenomas, is a relatively safe, straightforward surgery with (mostly) reproducible results and few complications. However, the evolution of pituitary surgery was a long process, starting from open/transfrontal approaches all the way to transsphenoid to the...

Day care stapes surgery

1 July 2016 | | Otosclerosis, Stapedotomy, Day-case, Inpatient, Hearing loss, Hearing results, Audiometry, Tinnitus, Vertigo, Quality of life

This paper reports on a proposed unblinded, randomised controlled trial in which the hearing outcomes after inpatient stapes surgery will be compared with those after day case stapes surgery. The study is currently in the recruitment stage and plans to...