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Impaired music perception in children with specific language impairment

1 July 2016 | | children, music, specific language impairment (SLI)
This study compares musical skills of children with typical language development with those of children with specific language impairment. Both groups received a test consisting of a melody and a song identification along with a test battery to assess receptive...

Delayed facial palsy post vestibular schwannoma resection

1 May 2016 |
This article presents findings of a retrospective evaluation of 489 patients who underwent vestibular schwannoma surgery and developed delayed facial palsy. The authors define delayed facial palsy as deterioration of at least two HB grades between postoperative days five and...

Pituitary tumour associated headaches

1 May 2016 |
This longitudinal cohort study presents data with significant clinical implications for patients with headaches and the clinicians and surgeons who treat them. For the study, patients completed a self-administered survey on headache characteristics on initial presentation and after surgery of...

Influence of atmospheric conditions on post tonsillectomy secondary haemorrhage

1 March 2016 | | Australia, Emergency Service, Hemorrhage, Hospital, Humans, Humidity, Hydrostatic Pressure, Otolaryngology, Seasons, Temperature, Tonsillectomy, Vapor Pressure
Haemostasis in epistaxis and a good few other conditions outside the field of otolaryngology seem to be affected by the weather. It is generally thought that dry and hot environment encourages secondary post tonsillectomy haemorrhage. Variations in water vapour pressure,...

Are upper respiratory symptoms and macroscopic changes in children always due to gastro-oesphageal reflux?

1 January 2016 | | Bronchoscopy, Croup, Gastroesophageal Reflux, Laryngoscopy, Pepsin
In children, symptoms such as chronic cough, wheezing, stridor, voice changes, persistent asthma and dental erosion are often presumed to be due to gastro-oesophageal reflux and empirical treatment with PPIs is offered. Usual investigations, such as a barium meal, gastroscopy...

Does teaching affect patient satisfaction?

1 January 2016 | | Medical Education, Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Patient Satisfaction, Physical Examination, Undergraduate
Teaching practice on real patients has several advantages in terms of lower costs and genuine clinical material but it is often a concern that using real patients for undergraduate teaching may result in patient dissatisfaction and many patients would prefer...
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How common is oropharyngeal dysphagia amongst the adult population?

4 July 2024 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
It is well known that oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) is a symptom arising from many different aetiologies or disease conditions and that it is a significant morbidity affecting people’s quality of life. Establishing the prevalence of OD is complicated by the...

Marginal gains

1 November 2015 |
Many consider facial nerve monitoring compulsory in parotid surgery yet few do the same for the marginal mandibular nerve in a submandibular approach, even though the nerve is finer and more difficult to identify. Here a group map the nerve...

International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS): its programmes and impact on head and neck cancer worldwide

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
In the first article of this edition, we introduce IFHNOS, which has created a major impact on the landscape of head and neck cancer treatment and education over the past quarter of a century by offering a global platform amongst...

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...

What you need to know about recent advances in genetics of hearing loss in the newborn

6 January 2023 | | Audiology - Paediatric
Identifying the underlying genetic cause of hearing loss in newborns can improve dramatically the early diagnosis and appropriate intervention. Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder at birth, affecting approximately two out of 1000 newborns [1]. Congenital impaired hearing...

Leadership and maximising resources: the view from Brazil and Venezuela

1 September 2019 | | ENT
Norma de Oliveira Penido, Priscila Bogar from Brazil and Sajidxa Mariño from Venezuela, leaders in otolaryngology, discuss their career journeys, the advantages and disadvantages they exerienced along the way, and the current state of ENT practice for women in South...