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A spoonful of sugar… helps the operated sinuses calm down?

1 March 2016 |
Ottoviano et al. present a prospective double-blinded RCT to assess the effect of a nasal gel containing silver sucrose octasulfate (Silsos Gel) on wound healing after endoscopic sinus surgery. The placebo used was a glycol gel. Thirty-four consecutive patients were...

Cholesteatoma and Ear Surgery

1 August 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The book Cholesteatoma and Ear Surgery is a selection of papers and presentations, including round tables and symposia, that constitute the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cholesteatoma and Ear surgery, a highly successful meeting that attracted over 1000...

Cerebrospinal fluid leaks after vestibular schwannoma surgery

1 October 2018 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
This study analyses 30-day readmission data after vestibular schwannoma surgery using a multicentre longitudinal State of California dataset. The authors studied risk factors, and timing of readmission in 6820 patients over 15 years. Of these, 490 readmissions were reported for...

Consequences of Meniere’s Tumarkin crises

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Many will be familiar with reports of frightening drop attacks without loss of consciousness experienced by some Meniere’s disease (MD) patients. This study analysed data from an electronic survey of over 600 members of a national Meniere’s society. The aim...

Rhinology and 3D printing

1 November 2017 | | 3D printing, Computed tomography, Nasal septal perforation, Prosthetic closure, Septal prostheses
3D printing has increasing applications in rhinology, for instance to create patient-specific preoperative models for procedure planning, including designing a template for reconstruction planning following tumour resection, patient consultation and customised prostheses. The authors focused their review on the role...

Post-cancer prosthodontic reconstruction

1 November 2015 | | Biologically driven rehabilitation, Oral oncologic surgery, Peri-implant tissue, Prosthetically driven rehabilitation
A functional outcome after head and neck cancer resection is aimed at restoring speech and swallow. Dental reconstruction greatly facilitates this, particularly by enabling the patient to chew food. The authors reinforce the need for careful presurgical planning with treatment...
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Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery versus dopamine agonist therapy for microprolactinomas

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
This study addresses the importance of the location of microprolactinomas in determining prognosis after surgery. Long-term dopamine agonist treatment is the current standard of treatment for microprolactinomas. However, patients often seek surgical removal. The authors of this study retrospectively analysed...

Bright young things: executive functioning in younger, older and aphasic people

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | aging, aphasia, dual task processing, executive functions, set-switching
Executive function comprises several higher order cognitive processes such as planning, organisation, adaptation, maintenance, monitoring and decision making. It is thought that difficulties in cognitive flexibility in people with aphasia are associated with difficulties in executive function rather than the...

Pre-clinical development of magnetic delivery of therapy to middle and inner ears

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Why are we developing this technology? A key problem in drug delivery is getting the therapy to the right place in the body, which is especially challenging for targets that are small, deep and are protected or surrounded by anatomical...

10th ECHNO

8 March 2023 -11 March 2023 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
The European Congress on Head & Neck Oncology (ECHNO) is organised every two years by the European Head and Neck Society (EHNS). In 2023, the local organiser of this renowned congress is the Portuguese Head and Neck Cancer Study Group,...

From the editor SepOct 2021

3 September 2021 |
As the pandemic evolves, the world seems to be divided into those countries that are fortunate enough to have good vaccine coverage and, hence, are able to open up their societies; and those who do not have an adequate vaccine roll-out and are having to live with significant restrictions or high levels of prevalent disease.

Establishing a medical device company: an ENTrepreneur’s experience

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
In 2004, while I was suturing the mucopericondrial flaps for a septoplasty, I thought to myself, “there must be an easier and faster way of doing this”. Even though I had no formal training in business or medical device development,...