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Surgical management of congenital nasal pyriform aperture stenosis

1 May 2014 | | ENTA-Paediatrics, ENTA-Rhinoplasty
Introduction Congenital nasal pyriform aperture stenosis (CNPAS) is a rare cause of neonatal upper airway obstruction which was first described by Douglas in 1952 [1]. The first radiological description of CNPAS was described by Ey et al in 1988 [2]....

ENT and audiology in the Land of a Thousand Hills

4 March 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Rwanda is a beautiful country known as the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. It is located in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa and shares borders with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, all offering direct...

Cambodian otology service – a fellowship with a difference

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Cambodia is a country of 15 million people, still recovering from a chequered past. In the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, most of the medical profession, together with the rest of the educated population, was executed – the fortunate few...

The hearScope

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
A revolutionary new otoscope is using artificial intelligence to dramatically improve access to ear and hearing care in South African outreach communities. Carolina Leal, spoke to Professor De Wet Swanepoel of the University of Pretoria about how his team developed...

Lost voices – service induced hearing loss on working age veterans

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
The Royal British Legion campaign for the recognition of hearing loss in serving personnel and veterans In July 2014, the Royal British Legion launched a report entitled Lost Voices revealing that veterans under the age of 75 are three-and-a-half times...

Development of a new negative-pressure ventilatory support device: Exovent

3 September 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The pandemic has driven innovation in ways that we have not seen for many decades. Intensive care medicine and ENT have been at the forefront of these advances, and our good friends David Howard (never one to put his feet...

2020 Unmasked - By Behrad Barmayehvar

2 April 2021 | | COVID-19
The face mask has become part of our lives; an essential item besides your mobile phone that you cannot leave the house without. The mask has also turned into a symbol for the communal resilience that we have all shown...

Thyroid ultrasound elastography: does nodule stiffness predict malignancy?

1 May 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Approximately 50% of the general population has a thyroid nodule while 5-15% of these are malignant [1]. A major challenge, therefore, is how to detect the malignant nodules for appropriate, timely treatment and avoid unnecessary, costly investigations for the remainder....

Clinical leadership and management: developing world ENT

1 September 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
I have been asked to share some of the initiatives I have been involved with to address ENT-related challenges in Africa and the developing world. Developing countries constitute the majority of the world’s landmass (Figure 1), are home to >50%...

BTA Plug’em campaign – teaching young people how to enjoy live music safely

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In today’s world of ever-increasing sound levels, the Plug’em campaign, run by the British Tinnitus Association (BTA), is highlighting the issue of tinnitus caused by loud music in people aged 16-25 years old. The purpose of the campaign is to...

Thyroid cancer – the last decade

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Professor Ashok Shaha describes the evolution in the treatment of thyroid cancer that he has witnessed over the last decade and the invaluable progress made by himself and others, from their contributions to staging systems and guidelines. Nuances and paradigm...

Robotic surgery for squamous cell cancer: the new frontiers

4 November 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Although the da Vinci platform was FDA approved for early-stage oropharyngeal cancers, the indications have expanded. In this article, John Hardman explains how surgeons, with greater understanding of the strengths and limitations of robotic surgery, have systematically set out to...