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ENT bodies stand up for Ukraine
7 March 2022
Leading ENT and audiology organisations have made a stand against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Do you feel me? Emotional processing post-traumatic brain injury
1 September 2019
| Anna Volkmer
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ENTA - Head & Neck
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounted for just under three million accident and emergency admissions in the US in 2013, with common causes including falls, traffic accidents and assaults. Difficulties processing and expressing affective communication is a common sequela of TBI...
Relationship between early language delays and long-term outcomes
1 January 2018
| Gauri Mankekar
This epidemiological study from Australia, spanning 16 years, explores the influence of early language delays over time on outcomes in affected adults. Based on vocabulary skills at age five, the study population was classified into four groups: persistently good, persistently...
How has management and outcomes of necrotising otitis externa changed over the past decade?
Necrotising otitis externa (NOE) remains a challenging condition for ENT departments, particularly with the increased prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the general population. There is no international consensus on treatment, although many institutions now have local guidelines drawn up...Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa
3 November 2022
| Christopher Prescott (Prof), Racheal Hapunda, Clemence Chidziva, Wakisa Mulwafu (Prof)
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT
Much has been said of the paucity of ENT and its related services in low- and middle-income countries. This article from a retired paediatric otolaryngologist discusses the progress that has been made locally to redress these health inequalities. He has...
MedAudPro: a united front for audiology
19 September 2022
For the past three years, the Network of Medical Audiology Professionals has been bringing together ENT providers in the USA. Co-founder and President, Patricia Ramos talks about her ambitions for the organisation.
Teenagers with misophonia
1 January 2017
| Lucy Partridge
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Misophonia can be a distressing condition for teenagers and can have devastating effects upon their home and school lives. There is little research in this area and, as Lucy Partridge explains, more is greatly needed in order to identify interventions...
Impact of the updated cancer staging system on HPV-positive disease
1 July 2018
| Aileen Lambert
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American Joint Committee on Cancer, National Cancer Data Base, human papillomavirus, oropharyngeal cancer, staging
The AJCC cancer staging manual was updated in 2017 (8th edition). It is used in the MDT setting for planning treatment and assessing prognosis for individual patients, and is also widely used internationally in clinical trials. Unlike previous iterations of...
Static positional nystagmus
This study aimed to clarify the interpretation of positional nystagmus (PN) by looking at the current criteria for significance of PN, comparison of PN in symptomatic patients with normative data, prevalence of PN among participants with balance problems and assessing...Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine
Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...General overview of endoscopic ear surgery: advantages and principles
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...Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it
1 March 2014
| Ajith Paulose George, Chris Coulson, Mark Prince, Simon Pargeter, Matthew Tulley
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ENTA - ENT
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...