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Septal surgery made easy?

1 November 2016 |
The injecting of the greater palatine canal has been documented for some time. The authors in this paper expand this to the more common procedure of the septoplasty. They summarise the pros and cons published regarding the technique in sinus...

Can junior doctors provide immediate help in airway and other ENT emergencies?

1 September 2016 | | Accident and Emergency Department, Education, Otolaryngology
In the present trends for centralisation of ENT emergency services, availability of immediate middle grade or senior help in acute ENT emergencies does not always exist on site and hence the role of junior doctors in handling this is enhanced...

Steroids pre-FESS

1 September 2016 |
This meta-analysis and systematic review from the Netherlands and the UK aims to answer the question of whether corticosteroids inhaled and / or taken orally are beneficial to patients with chronic rhinosinusitis undergoing functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Refreshingly 18 RCTs...

Righting the paralysed lip

1 November 2015 | | Facial nerve, Lower lip paralysis, Marginal branch, Surgical repair
Many surgical procedures that otolaryngologists perform put the facial nerve at risk of injury, a complication that the surgeon and patient fear alike. Unfortunately, injuries to the nerve can and do happen despite adequate precautions, and facial paralysis may be...
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Microsurgical and Endoscopic Approaches to the Skull Base

3 November 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Imaging, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
This is a comprehensive book which covers both microsurgical and endoscopic techniques. The introductory section focuses on setup for microsurgical and endoscopic techniques, with images to support this. A detailed description of instruments is also provided, which would be extremely...

Surgical Paediatric Otolaryngology, Second Edition

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
This is a well-written and illustrated surgical atlas of paediatric otolaryngology by authors who are senior and experienced paediatric otolaryngology head and neck surgeons working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This text is a comprehensive...

What blood tests should be requested to investigate vocal cord paralysis?

1 July 2017 | | Blood tests, Dysphonia, Hoarseness, Laboratory tests, Vocal fold paralysis, Work-up for dysphonia
Patients who are discovered to have a vocal cord palsy with no obvious cause on history or examination routinely undergo investigations to exclude an underlying pathology. Cross-sectional imaging of the relevant recurrent laryngeal nerve is required, but considerable variability has...

Endoscopic CSF leak repair using nasoseptal flap

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-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...

Covid-19 Tips and insights

26 March 2020 | | ENTA-Covid-19, ENTA-ENT
The following blog articles have been kindly provided by Eric Levi. For more from Eric Levi, visit https://ericlevi.com/blog/ COVID19 affects everyone Posted on 01/04/2020 by Eric Levi Here’s a report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention looking at...

General overview of endoscopic ear surgery: advantages and principles

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The philosophy of endoscopic ear surgery presents surgeons with a tricky concept – does the magnificent view make up for the fact I need to operate with one hand? In this article, Jane Lea discusses the advantages of operating transcanal...

Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...

Elasticated retraction in head and neck surgery – a trainee’s perspective

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
The effectiveness of surgical technique and satisfactory outcome is greatly dependent on good surgical exposure. Retraction requires adequate traction and counter-traction of tissues in order to expose the tissue or organ under scrutiny for the surgeon. This is a universal...