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Septal perforation healing

3 May 2024 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Rhinoplasty
This Turkish animal-based study looked at the healing properties of Hypericum Oleum (HO, or St John’s wort) and Triticum vulgare (TV, or wheat germ oil) on nasal septal perforations in rats. Both HO and TV have wound healing properties and...

What can we tell about swallow physiology from a bedside clinical assessment?

1 September 2016 | | Clinical, Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Examination, Physiology
Knowledge about swallowing physiology has greatly increased with the use of instrumental assessments such as videofluoroscopy (VFS). The authors of this paper performed an analysis of data obtained from 60 stroke patients who were assessed via a clinical swallow examination...

Difficult consultations with HPV-positive oropharnyeal cancer patients

1 May 2016 | | communication, health professionals, human papillomavirus (HPV), oropharyngeal cancer, qualitative research
The aetiological role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is well established, and its incidence has massively increased over the last decade, whilst the incidence of HPV-negative OPSCC is declining. Although we know that HPV-positive OPSCC...

Translating research – transforming lives: the BACO 2020 academic programme

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
The main attraction of any conference or event is, of course, the academic programme of lectures, workshops and education. Hisham Mehanna, BACO 2020 Academic Chair, and Paul Nankivell, Academic Vice Chair, give us an overview of what to expected in...

What I look for at a conference (and why you should go to BACO 2023)

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-ENT
Professor Claire Hopkins has attended more than her fair share of international meetings, and she shares her top tips. COVID has changed the face of medical education forever – who would have thought only a few years ago that we...

The role of objective measures and imaging to optimise cochlear implant outcomes

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Should we be using new or novel objective measures and imaging to assist with our cochlear implant patients? Debi Vickers and Shak Saeed describe current clinical techniques and present advances that have the potential to optimise outcomes. Introduction It is...

From India to Bonnie Scotland

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
Not many people know that one of the UK’s first cochlear implant surgeons was Raj Singh, OBE, an Indian immigrant whose passions for otology and technology led him to found the Scottish Cochlear Implant Programme, and the Help to Hear...

Philosophy and reality of entrepreneurship

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
Before you take the time to read this article, be informed that it is indeed hard to be an entrepreneur. It warrants passion, sacrifice, total commitment and willingness to spend day and night (even in your sleep) thinking and working...

The development of endoscopic sinus surgery – a meeting of three great minds

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
The story of the development of endoscopic sinus surgery is inextricably linked with the names of Stammberger, Messerklinger and Storz. Karl Storz’s daughter, Sybill Storz, tells us more. We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation of...

Dr Marion Pfaender Down

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
“Dr Marion P Downs, an innovator in the field of paediatric audiology and a tireless advocate for the early identification of hearing loss, passed away on November 13, 2014. During her exemplary career at the University of Colorado Health Sciences...

Changing perceptions in head and neck cancer management caused by quality of life issues

1 September 2010 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Sir Felix Semon was an outstanding clinician and exceptional laryngologist. The money raised by donations from his colleagues on his retirement in 1909 was used to establish the London University’s Semon Lecture. Semon’s Obituary in the BMJ, reads: “In Semon's...

Surgeons and swearing

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
We will all know colleagues who have raised the act of swearing to an art form; just as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It could cut a workmate in half with a well-placed swear word, surgeons can be equally...