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Targeting the microbiome in chronic rhinosinusitis

4 July 2024 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Researchers at St Paul’s Sinus Centre and UBC in Vancouver are testing a novel treatment for CRS: transferring mucus from a healthy donor into a patient’s sinuses. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most common diseases managed by otolaryngologists...

Surgical options for children with OSA

1 January 2017 | | Sleep-disordered breathing, Sleep apnea, Obstructive sleep apnea, Pediatric, Adenotonsillectomy, Lingual tonsillectomy, Midline glossectomy, Supraglottoplasty, Turbinoplasty, Tracheostomy, Drug-induced sleep endoscopy, DISE, Distraction osteogenesis
This paper looks at the surgical management of OSA in children and approaches the method of patient selection initially. They discuss the role of polysomnography in that it is part of the AAOHNS criteria in those patients with OSA symptoms...

Head and neck cancer deaths to cost $535 billion by 2030

3 March 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
More than 500,000 people across the globe will die this year from head and neck cancer, which is the sixth most common cancer in the world and comprises malignancies of the nose, mouth, throat, larynx, and neck. Assuming current trends...

The changing spectrum of cancer of the oropharynx: dilemmas and future directions

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Head and Neck
The association of HPV in oropharyngeal cancer has identified a ‘new disease’, with its unique biologic behaviour, and challenges for clinicians in selecting therapeutic combinations offering maximum efficacy and minimum morbidity or long-term sequela currently under study in clinical trials....

Interview with Mr Vasant Oswal, Emeritus Consultant ENT H&N Surgeon

21 June 2022 | | ENT, Head and Neck
British Medical Laser Association (BMLA) held its 39th annual conference, the first in-person gathering following the COVID-19 pandemic, in the academic surrounding of the Surgeons’ Quarters of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Chris Henson caught up with 87-year-old...

What’s happened since the European position paper on nose and sinus tumours?

1 May 2017 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
The management of malignant sinonasal tumours has gone through radical changes in recent years. Prof Valerie Lund gives us an update based on her upcoming talk at IFOS. In 2010 when we published the European position paper on ‘endoscopic management...

Setting up a robotic surgical practice: view from India

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Transoral robotic surgery has an established role in head and neck cancer surgery. But how easy is it to set up a service in a resource-constrained environment? Gouri Pantvaidya and Ameya Pai give us a view from the Indian subcontinent....

Sleep apnoea in children with craniofacial syndromes

1 May 2015 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Paediatric ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Whilst snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea are relatively common diagnoses in paediatric ENT, children with craniofacial syndromes take the problem to the next level. Robert Nash and Michelle Wyatt describe the Great Ormond Street multidisciplinary approach to treating this complex...

Can we prevent chronic rhinosinusitis?

1 November 2017 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
The old adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ is considered by Professor Hopkins in respect to chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition affecting around 10% of the adult population and associated with huge impact on quality of life and economic cost. A...

Quo vadis FESS? Future directions in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Imaging
Endoscopic sinus surgery is now so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when it was not part of our clinical practice. Valentin Tomazic takes a look at its early development and looks ahead to endoscopic sinus surgery...

Open septorhinoplasty approach for closure of medium sized septal perforations

1 May 2015 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Septal perforations are difficult problems to treat. There are various causes described in literature such as trauma, inflammatory, cocaine abuse but most often they are due to iatrogenic cause (such as septoplasty) or due to trauma. The symptoms due to...

Endoscopic CSF leak repair using nasoseptal flap

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Many of us during training or in established practice will have encountered the complication of anterior skull base CSF leak. This can be a challenging problem to deal with and in this article the authors describe their favoured approach. Cerebrospinal...