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The utilisation of three-dimensional printed models in skull base surgery

1 January 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
As technology improves, there are new ways to assist with surgeons when it comes to training and preparing for surgery. Barbara Anne Thomson and Georgios Kontorinis highlight how 3D printing can help with the understanding and surgical planning for complex...
Photo showing a device developed by Tymcure

Present and future in myringoplasty

1 November 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, Otology
Tympanic membrane perforations are a common finding in ENT practice. Whilst watchful waiting or formal tympanoplasty are standard options – wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a low cost, safe, in-clinic option to immediately help patients (I hear you...

World’s oldest recipient of a cochlear implant

6 June 2022
What do you ask for on your birthday when you are 103 years old? Leslie Hodgson (above) knew exactly what he wanted: his hearing back. And clinicians at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were happy to help, breaking two...

Clinical Practice Guideline on Tympanostomy Tube in Children Update (AAO-HNS)

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Paediatric ENT | developmental delay disorders, grommets, middle ear effusion, otitis media, otorrhea, pediatric otolaryngology, tympanostomy tubes
The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation’s ‘Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children (Update)’ has been recently published - an update of the original 2013 guideline. This article forms an executive summary to accompany the full guideline....

Erwin Geising and the fall of the Third Reich

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-ENT
It’s mid 1944. The allies have landed at Normandy, the Germans have abandoned Rome and are retreating from the Russians on the eastern front. The Fuhrer was in way over his head and out of his depth. Watching this series...

The golden nose – reshaping the nose 100 years ago

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
Wolf Lűbbers (with the golden nose). Who with a crooked nose would not embrace the chance to go to bed in the evening wearing a surgical device and wake up the following morning with a straight one? And all this...

COVID-19 ENT Useful Resources

25 March 2020 | COVID-19
Below is a list of useful resources connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. This list will be updated as and when more become available. 1 June - BLA & ENT UK Guidelines (endorsed by RCSLT) : A graduated return to elective...

Audiological testing strategies for children and young people with ASD

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In 2014 the Hummingbird Clinic was opened, offering a bespoke clinic for children with complex needs or autism. In this article Keiran Joseph shares the wealth of knowledge gained in this clinic over the years and offers some top tips...

Human factors, theatre ethnographics and Girls Aloud

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
The issue of ambient music in the operating theatre is frequently controversial and has been known to cause ‘Bluetooth wars’, as different team members vie for control of the speakers. Our own Chris Potter gives his personal slant on this...

Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) - inability to burp: treatment with Botox injection

3 July 2023 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
As unusual as it may sound, some people have great difficulty burping. We hear of one approach to tackling this problem. Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) is a condition presenting with inability to burp, resulting in gaseous distension of the digestive...

Intratympanic treatments for subjective idiopathic tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Tinnitus
Direct application of medication into the ear is long established, going back as far as written records. In the modern era, greater understanding of aural anatomy revealed that drugs instilled in the middle ear could potentially diffuse into the cochlea...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO) and balloon dilatation under a local anaesthesia

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Many of us are becoming more and more familiar with the use of transnasal oesophagoscopy. It has a number of well-described uses in the outpatient setting and is well tolerated by our patients. Yakubu Karagama describes taking this technique a...