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Globe Trotting and 62 years of ENT book cover image.

Globe Trotting and 62 years of ENT

3 November 2022 | | ENT
Vasant Oswal was, for many years, ‘Mister ENT’ in the Northeast of England. Appointed as a consultant to the old North Riding Infirmary in 1970, he led what was a small and little-known department through a period of tumultuous change...
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ICG in ENT surgery

5 July 2022 | | ENT, Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
The use of fluorescence imaging is well established in the medical sphere, forming an essential arm of medical diagnostics with liver function, ophthalmic angiography, and assessment in cell biology with fluorescence microscopy. Fluorescence imaging in surgery, however, is an evolving...

The multidisciplinary voice clinic

30 April 2020 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In his inimitable way, Nick Gibbins tells us why the voice clinic is the highlight of his week – and his very own field of dreams. The voice clinic has come a long way in the last 40 years. The...

History of innovation in ENT

2 November 2020 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Rhinology / Sinus
Innovation seems to have been in the strapline of every meeting, conference and course for the last few years. You would be forgiven for thinking it is a new a concept, but as Neil Weir beautifully details, innovation has been...

OBITUARY: Prof Shanmugam Kameswaran (1923-2021)

10 August 2021 | | ENT, Otology
Professor Shanmugam Kameswaran was born in 1923 and did his MBBS and MS at Madras Medical College, India, under PV Cherian who later became the Governor of Maharashtra, India. He worked as his assistant and left for the UK in...

Rehabilitation of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss: bone vs air conduction

1 September 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
The re-routing of sound from the deafened ear to the hearing ear has been the mainstay of rehabilitation for SSD for many years. Both hearing aid and bone conduction technology have undergone significant advances over the past decade. This article...

The Veterans Hearing Fund

1 July 2016 | | Audiology - Adult
Dawn Bramham introduces us to the newly launched Veterans Hearing Fund (VHF). This organisation aims to improve the lives of military personnel with hearing loss by providing access to technologies, services and bespoke rehabilitation that are not routinely available via...

Reduction thyroplasty

1 November 2014 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Introduction Male to female transgendered patients are referred to ENT for reduction thyroplasty – a procedure to reduce the external appearance of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, and feminisation of the voice. Reduction thyroplasty, often erroneously called ‘tracheal shave’,...

Face shield modification in ENT during COVID-19 pandemic

21 June 2021 | | COVID-19, ENT
The COVID pandemic has caused a huge disruption to our lives, not least at work where safety restrictions and the widespread implementation of PPE have led to some challenges to carrying out routine ENT work. In this article, the authors...

VES2 is ready to bring ear surgery into your living room

1 November 2014 | | Otology
The VES2 virtual reality bone drilling simulator is ready and it is freeware! After a long development period we are now able to invite everybody to try the simulator and use it for training, for a inner ear anatomy, and...

The making of a paediatric airway surgeon: In conversation with David Albert

31 October 2018 | | Paediatric ENT, ENT, Audiology - Paediatric
Michael Kuo interviews David Albert to find out what drew him to paediatric airway surgery, the mentors who shaped his surgical approach, and to ask his advice for budding young paediatric airway surgeons. David Albert. When did you first get...

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

12 November 2019 | | 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...