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The pioneer of precision: Wolfgang Steiner and the evolution of transoral laser surgery

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
It is rare that a single clinician entirely changes the course of the management of a particular condition. Steiner was one such clinician. Wolfgang Steiner was to transoral laser microsurgery what Grandmaster Flash was to hip-hop or James Brown was...

Kallmann’s Syndrome

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Genetics
‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ (Shakespeare) Kallmann’s Syndrome (KS), or hereditary hypogonadal anosmia, is a rare genetic disorder characterised by delayed or absent puberty and anosmia. It is named after Franz Kallmann, but he was...

Getting ready for Gothenburg – CEORL-HNS 2026

14 April 2026 | | ENTA - General
Professor Ann Hermansson in Dublin, 2024. Professor Ann Hermansson from Lund, Sweden, has been a towering figure in European ORL for three decades. She is heading up the team putting together the eighth Congress of the Confederation of European Otolaryngology/Head...

Wisdom and the cochlear implant clinician

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Helen Cullington provides the clinician’s perspective on the challenges faced in building artificial intelligence into cochlear implant clinics. She highlights the importance of including the clinician with their wisdom and experience to help make sense of the patterns of data....

BAAP Audit Meeting 2026

19 June 2026
Lara Carvalho Sauer, ST7 Audiovestibular Medicine resident, St George’s hospital, UK The annual BAAP Audit Meeting was hosted by Reeya Motha, consultant audiovestibular physician at Barts Health NHS Trust. There were 48 attendees this year, including audiovestibular medicine (AVM) consultants,...

Envisaging ESPO 2026

1 October 2026
Jiří Skřivan has been an inspiring presence in the ORL community in his native Prague for more than thirty years. An otologist and one of the pioneers of cochlear implant surgery in Central and Eastern Europe, Jiří is leading the...

A brief history of adenoidectomy - a glowing report of the post nasal space

12 November 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
The traditional adenoid curette more closely resembles a medieval torture device than an instrument of cure. Therefore it is not much of a surprise to learn that it has changed little since its invention almost 150 years ago. During that...

The Indian method: Sushruta’s influence on modern nasal reconstruction

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Ancient Indian medicine, as documented in the Sushruta Samhita, contains one of the earliest known references to nasal reconstruction, including surgical techniques still resembling modern practices. (The Sanskrit word ‘Samhita’ is used to define a collection of written work, similar...

Across the pond: a tale of two fellowships

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
Where in the world is Halifax? Many outside of Canada have never heard of the Maritime Canadian town of Halifax. Before leaving to start a year-long fellowship there, we both had to answer many questions from family and friends about...

‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - General
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - General
Background endoscope-i (e-i) Ltd was incorporated into Companies House on December 3rd, 2012 following eight months of developing our first project, a simple iPhone adapter for endoscopes. Of the three founding shareholders, two are ENT surgeons and one a lecturer...