Journal Reviews

Clinical Practice Guideline on Tympanostomy Tube in Children Update (AAO-HNS)

3 May 2022 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Paediatric ENT | developmental delay disorders, grommets, middle ear effusion, otitis media, otorrhea, pediatric otolaryngology, tympanostomy tubes

The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation’s ‘Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children (Update)’ has been recently published - an update of the original 2013 guideline. This article forms an executive summary to accompany the full guideline....

Delays in oral cancer

1 November 2019 | | Head and Neck | Oral cancer, patient delay, professional delay, squamous cell carcinoma, treatment delay

This is a review from Canada where they attempt to relate delays in oral cancer presentation to treatment and the impact on stage, diagnosis and survival. They recognise that potentially the most significant delay is between the patient first noticing...

When to treat a fractured mandible?

1 October 2018 | | Head and Neck | assault, delay, fracture, mandible, surgery, timing, trauma

This is a prospective study from Brisbane of 215 patients with a total of 359 fractures of the mandible. Nine outcome variables were analysed with a further 19 included to adjust for potential confounding. Treatment delay was found not to...

Spasmodic dysphonia – is greater awareness needed?

1 January 2016 | | Diagnostic delay, Larynx, Spasmodic dysphonia, Voice

Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a focal dystonia of the laryngeal musculature. Previously considered to be a rare disorder, it has more recently been suggested that SD is in fact not rare but is frequently misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. This paper would...

English language development in bilingual toddlers

1 July 2015 | | bilingualism, language delay and assessment, lexicon

It is known that bilingual children have a smaller vocabulary in each of their two languages than monolingual children and also take a little longer to reach the same levels as monolinguals on various grammatical tasks. The authors of the...