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Review of pituitary tumour pathology

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery | Craniopharyngioma, Germ cell, Inflammatory, Neurohypophysitis, Neuropathology, Pituitary adenoma, Sellar
This is an excellent review article covering the pathology of pituitary adenomas (PA) as well as rare sellar lesions like lymphocytic hypophysitis that require aggressive treatment. The authors have preserved the 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of PA and...
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Algorithm for malignant otitis externa

1 November 2019 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Diabetes Mellitus, Otitis Externa, Pseudomonas, Skull Base
Timely detection and effective management of this potentially fatal condition cannot be overemphasised. This study presents 16 cases over 12 months in a tertiary referral centre. Most patients had diabetes and others were immunocompromised due to radiotherapy, immunosuppressive medication or...

Lingual tonsils and obstrucive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS)

1 September 2019 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Lingual tonsils, Retrolingual space, Sleep apnea, Surgery
Obstructive sleep apnoea can be due to narrowing of the retrolingual space by hypertrophic lingual tonsils. The authors studied 11 patients (five males and six females with a mean age of 44.3 years and a mean BMI of 28.6). All...
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Medical Speech-Language Pathology: A Practitioner’s Guide

9 September 2020 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
Medical Speech-Language Pathology: A Practitioner’s Guide is an informative and comprehensive guide to differential diagnosis, assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders in the medical setting, which includes consideration of adult patients from early diagnosis to end of life....

Extrapolating lessons from vestibular schwannoma management

1 May 2017 | | head and neck, radiology, schwannoma, volume
This paper presents a delightfully simple and sensible hypothesis for the management of benign schwannomas in the head and neck region. They have taken the approach used for the management of vestibular schwannomas and used the same principles to assess...

Playing hide and seek with parathyroid glands

1 March 2017 | | Hyperparathyroidism, Recurrence, Revision surgery
This article focuses on revision surgery with respect to parathyroid glands. Clearly the stakes are higher with respect to the patients’ risks, but also with respect to the revision surgeon in finding the offending gland in scar tissue, where someone...

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...

Back to basics: nasendoscopy beats CT, again!

1 May 2015 | | computed tomography, delivery of healthcare, deviated nasal septum, health policy, insurance, health, nasal surgical procedures, practice guidelines, septoplasty
There are few otolaryngologists (or patients) who have not been confronted with a computed tomography scan referring to a deviated septum. In a very similar way to the accidental findings of sinus mucosal thickening, the clinician is left in a...

Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia; which one is this one?

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | lichen planus, oral leukoplakia, squamous dysplasia, squamous tumorigenesis, verrucous hyperplasia
Oral leukoplakia has the potential for malignant change and it may frequently require histological analysis and a period of regular clinical observation. The majority of oral leukoplakia remains constant but there is a subset that progress to carcinoma. The authors...

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders, ENTA-Otology
In this article, Hannah North and Simon Lloyd give us an overview of the complex condition of superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD) syndrome, including diagnosis, treatment and management. Superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD) is a bony defect of the otic...

Paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
As tonsillectomy rates for recurrent sore throats have declined, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of OSA in children. Not always diagnosed early – or in some cases at all – and with continuing debate as to how...

Psychogenic vestibular disorders: understanding and management

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
‘Psychogenic vestibular disorders’, also known as ‘functional vertigo and dizziness’, are common causes of dizziness and balance difficulty. Although our understanding of their underlying pathophysiology remains incomplete, Drs Diego Kaski and Amy Edwards outline how early identification and positive diagnosis...