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Balance Function Assessment and Management – Second Edition

1 January 2016 |
This is the second edition of this reference work which was first published in 2008. Vestibular assessment and management has moved on in the intervening seven years and this new edition reflects this. This aims to be a comprehensive reference...
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Lockdown has been bad for children, but it might mean they don’t need surgery anymore

2 November 2020 | | Paediatric ENT | COVID-19, Lockdown, OSAS, URTIs, Adenotonsillar hypertrophy, Therapy
Our editor’s choice for this edition reviews an article looking at the effects of lockdown on symptom prevalence in children with adenotonsillar diseases. In this unprecedented COVID-19 era that we are all living and working in, risk assessment has taken...

Gardasil vaccination as an adjuvant treatment for established recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis in male adults - does it stimulate an immune response?

1 May 2017 | | Gardasil, antibody titers, quadrivalent HPV vaccine, ecurrent laryngeal papilloma, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is well known to be caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (types 6 and 11). Recurrence after surgical removal is common and potentially frequent and severe. Previous research has established that many patients with...

Voice after posterior cordotomy: we think voice is bad, patients think it’s better!

1 January 2017 |
Bilateral vocal fold immobility (BVFI) is a condition that can affect voice with an impact on quality of life (QOL). Surgical trauma from damage to bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerves, such as from previous thyroid, parathyroid, or mediastinal surgery are common...
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Nasal allergies and OSA

4 July 2024 | | Rhinology / Sinus
The first day of June is the meteorological start of summer. As a moderately wet spring slowly blurs to (a damp UK) summer, we can look forward to holidays in the countryside, enjoying the changing pollen seasons from tree to...

In conversation with Prof Helge Rask-Andersen: on cell regeneration and treatment of human deafness

2 September 2022 | | ENT, Auditory Implants, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
Helge Rask-Andersen, head of the inner ear research laboratory at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, has many achievements to his name. He was made an Honorary Member of ENT UK earlier this year. Gerry O’Donoghue caught up with him...

Physiological mechanisms of hyperacusis: an update

1 January 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Tinnitus
Hyperacusis is a heterogeneous and complex clinical entity, and proposals about physiological mechanisms should reflect these issues. Ben Auerbach helps us navigate through present knowledge in this area, and proposes future directions for research. Hyperacusis is a debilitating hearing disorder...

In conversation with Prof Helge Rask-Andersen: on cell regeneration and treatment of human deafness

2 September 2022 | | ENT, Auditory Implants, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
Helge Rask-Andersen, head of the inner ear research laboratory at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, has many achievements to his name. He was made an Honorary Member of ENT UK earlier this year. Gerry O’Donoghue caught up with him...

Military otolaryngology and its impact on civilian trauma care

1 July 2014 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology
Over the centuries, military conflicts and wars have caused both death and injuries and led to improvements in the care of the combat wounded. Military otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons have been at the forefront of these developments and advances. War...

Intratympanic treatments for subjective idiopathic tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT, Otology, Tinnitus
Direct application of medication into the ear is long established, going back as far as written records. In the modern era, greater understanding of aural anatomy revealed that drugs instilled in the middle ear could potentially diffuse into the cochlea...

The tip in rhinoplasty

1 July 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Rhinoplasty, Maxillofacial Surgery
Getting the tip right (both its position and its shape) is vital in rhinoplasty. George Marcells eloquently gives us his perspective on how to get it right. “Many surgeons overly concentrate on the profile at the expense of the frontal...

OBITUARY: Alan Gibb (1919-2020)

15 September 2020 | | ENT, Otology
Alan Gibb, who passed away on 5 September aged 101, was the Grand Old Man of British Otology. He slipped quietly away at home on Deeside from the long-term consequences of a stroke about two years ago, from which he...