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The middle way: treating idiopathic facial nerve palsy

1 March 2016 |
Whilst the causes of recurrent facial nerve palsy are numerous, in many cases it may be idiopathic. There is no clear consensus on treatment of this condition and conservative management alone may condemn patients to gradually worsening facial nerve function...

Mitomycin in adjuvant treatment of laryngotracheal stenosis

1 January 2016 |
Laryngotracheal stenosis (LTR) is a difficult condition to manage, and the effectiveness of surgical treatment is limited by the tendency of scar tissue to reform. Mitomycin has been used as a controversial adjuvant to surgical treatment for many years. Drawbacks...

Innovia Medical Launches the Oral Rotating Biopsy Punch

3 January 2024 | Research & Development
Innovia Medical is proud of the addition of the DTR Medical® Oral Rotating Biopsy Punch to their Single-use ENT range!

Adenoid cystic carcinoma – insights from a national database

4 July 2024 | | Head and Neck
Adenoid cystic carcinoma (AdCC) is a rare cancer of the salivary glands that accounts for approximately 1% of all head and neck malignancies. Hallmarks of this cancer type include a predilection for perineural infiltration, a prolonged clinical course with late...

The benefits of early voice therapy for unilateral vocal cord paralysis

1 November 2015 | | Unilateral vocal fold paralysis, Voice therapy
This retrospective review of voice outcomes following a diagnosis of unilateral vocal fold paralysis divided patients into three groups according to the time of initiation of voice therapy following the onset of paralysis. The ‘early’ group started voice therapy within...

Simulation: human factors scenario training

1 January 2014 | | ENT
It is said that surgical training has suffered as a result of a combination of factors – through the introduction of work time restrictions such as the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) [1], a limit on the number of years...

Imaging tinnitus

1 May 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT, Tinnitus
Tinnitus is a common sensation with a reported prevalence of 7-32%. The British National Study of Hearing recorded that 10% of adults suffered from prolong spontaneous tinnitus, and approximately a quarter of these are subsequently referred to hospital for investigation...

Role of interventional neuroradiology in otorhinolarygological pathology 
– a brief review

1 May 2014 | | ENT, Neurotology
Introduction Since its advent in 1964 when Dotter percutaneously dilated a stenosed femoral artery [1], interventional radiology has undergone tremendous advancement in both imaging and devices that have enabled the operator (interventional radiologist) to access very distal small vasculature and...

Intraoperative nerve monitoring: 2017

1 July 2017 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Having written the definitive text on laryngeal nerves, Gregory Randolph and Dipti Kamani describe the benefits of intraoperative neural monitoring and, importantly, how to proceed if the nerve is pathologically involved or there is loss of signal. Over the years,...

Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
This article examines the career of deaf African American, Andrew Foster, and his contribution to deaf education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The history of medicine has often been guilty of attributing great revolutions to a single person (usually a white man)...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

Robotic surgery for squamous cell cancer: the new frontiers

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and 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...