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Fall prevention in the elderly population
A fall in later life can have a catastrophic impact on a person’s quality of life. Lilian Felipe explains how falls prevention programmes and vestibular rehabilitation can help.
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...
Beyond hearing aids: early interventions in hearing care to lower dementia risk
6 November 2024
| Amanda Philpott
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Published in print under the titleHearing care and dementia: professional insights on the new Lancet Commission findingsThe Lancet Commission on ‘Dementia prevention, intervention and care: 2024 report’ highlights a list of potential modifiable factors to reduce dementia risk. As with...
Head and neck cancer and PET-CT
Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is an imaging technique in which abnormalities of tissue metabolism are precisely superimposed onto the anatomy. It relies on the premise that malignant cells are more metabolically active compared with non-malignant cells. On this basis,...The changing spectrum of cancer of the oropharynx: dilemmas and future directions
The association of HPV in oropharyngeal cancer has identified a ‘new disease’, with its unique biologic behaviour, and challenges for clinicians in selecting therapeutic combinations offering maximum efficacy and minimum morbidity or long-term sequela currently under study in clinical trials....
A comparison of cold dissection, coblation and diode laser tonsillectomy
Excellence in tonsillectomy is based on the time taken, blood loss and rapid recovery with minimal pain. In this study, 120 children underwent tonsillectomy by three methods, namely cold dissection, coblation and diode laser dissection in three randomly allocated groups...
Factors influencing transformation of laryngeal dysplasia to malignancy in a 10-year review
2 September 2022
| Madhup K Chaurasia
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ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
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Epithelium, Laryngeal Neoplasms, Larynx, Precancerous Conditions, Vocal Cords
Laryngeal dysplasia has a propensity to change into malignancy, the generally reported rate of this being about 14%. In this retrospective study of 125 patients, the authors have assessed the severity of dysplasia in relation to the incidence and time...
Cervicogenic vertigo, a view from the experts
4 May 2023
| Victor Osei-Lah
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Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
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Cervical, cervicogenic, dizziness, neck, vertigo, vestibular
Many readers would be familiar with the term ‘cervicogenic vertigo’ to mean neck-related vertigo or dizziness. In simple terms, this disorder has been defined as dizziness/vertigo caused by neck pain and/or stiffness. By implication, the vertigo/dizziness should resolve by treating...
Evaluation of secondary otalgia
1 November 2019
| Sunil Sharma
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ENTA - Head & Neck
This Turkish prospective study of 200 patients looked at the pain characteristics of secondary otalgia related to temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and cervical region disorders (CRD), and how they can affect diagnostics. Patients were included if they were >18 years of...
Clinical pathological features associated with malignant change in oral leukoplakias
2 March 2022
| Stuart Clark
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ENTA - Head & Neck
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carcinoma, leukoplakia, mouth neoplasms, oral, Oral squamous cell carcinoma
This is a retrospective study from Sweden where 234 patients, diagnosed between 2003 and 2013 with a median nine-year follow-up, were reviewed. Of these 234 patients, 11.5% developed oral squamous cell carcinoma. Non-homogenous leukoplakia showed a 15-times higher transformation rate...
Paediatric coblation intracapsular tonsillectomy
1 July 2015
| Andy Hall
The ENT-UK tonsillectomy audit in 2005 created understandable caution in the promotion of Coblation techniques. This prospective study on 100 consecutive paediatric patients looked at outcomes following ‘cold’ radiofrequency ablation (Coblation) intracapsular tonsillectomy. This series shows the technique to be...
A novel use for coblation in the nose
1 November 2016
| Sidhartha Nagala
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Coblation, Nasal obstruction, Nasal valve, Radiofrequency, Septal swell body
Having recently become a coblation convert for multiple applications in ENT (including tonsillectomy, inferior turbinate reduction and radiofrequency ablation of the tongue base), it was interesting to read about another novel use in the nose. This preliminary report evaluates the...
