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Non-absorbable synthetic material for middle fossa repair using a combined transmastoid/middle fossa approach

4 May 2023 |
Repair of CSF leaks can be a challenging technical undertaking. In this article, the authors describe their use of a synthetic material to help with the successful repair of these leaks from the middle cranial fossa. Erosion of the middle...

Modern Hearing Aids: Verification, Outcome Measure and Follow-Up

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Modern Hearing Aids has the right balance of light-heartedness and formal writing to keep the reader interested throughout. Looking at the overall book, it has quite a lot of information that is relevant to experienced clinicians, newly qualified clinicians and...
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Clinical Audiology: An Introduction - Third Edition

3 September 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Clinical Audiology: An Introduction - Third Edition is intended as a course book for students in audiology. It is aimed primarily at students in the USA, although it would also be suitable for students in other countries. It is a...

Swallow assessment: is clinical judgement or objective measurement more reliable?

1 May 2018 | | reliability, training, videofluoroscopic swallow study
Swallowing difficulties are life threatening and are the most common referral reason to speech and language therapists working with the adult population. Video fluoroscopic examination is a common instrumental tool used to assist in the assessment of the risk of...

Fluorescein use during parotidectomy

1 January 2018 | | Parotid gland, Fluorescein sodium, Parotidectomy
The authors of this study retrospectively reviewed the surgical charts of seven patients who underwent parotidectomy for tumour resection. In all these patients, Fluorescein sodium was used to enhance the contrast between parotid tumour tissue and the facial nerve. Using...

Drawing pictures and telling stories: treating tinnitus in childhood

24 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Tinnitus
There is increasing awareness that tinnitus is not restricted to adults. Indeed, the available evidence suggests that some experience of tinnitus in children is fairly common [1]. For many, tinnitus has little effect and requires limited or no intervention. For...

Dysphagia in complex laryngology – maintaining the balance

4 May 2023 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
These authors from the speech and language therapy department at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, describe their view of a patient-centred approach to managing dysphagia in complex laryngology. Careful consideration of the balance of airway, voice and swallow, which is...

The role of the maxillo-facial surgeon in the management of skull base malignancy

1 June 2014 | | ENTA-Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
Whilst ablative surgery remains the principal treatment option for head and neck malignancy, the skull base is the last frontier. The complex anatomy, supreme functionality of the brain, and varied pathology provokes many a detailed discussion in the multidisciplinary team...

The Brain’s Connectome – a symphony inside our brains and how hearing loss disturbs the music

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Neurotology
Understand us; where do we begin? In this article the authors’ introduce a project that may uncover that our personalities and traits are a product of the interconnected wiring within our brain. The team discusses the Human Connectome Project and...

Non-surgical rhinoplasty

1 July 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Rhinoplasty
Some patients would like to alter the appearance of their nose without surgery or make further subtle changes after a rhinoplasty. Lydia Badia explains how this can be done, thanks to the advent of injectable fillers. This medical procedure in...

Transnasal endoscopic orbital decompression

10 March 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
Surgery for the eye complications of Grave’s disease is an area that, over the years, ENT has become more and more involved in due to our ability to access the orbit endoscopically. In this article, the authors describe their technique...

The evolution in management of microtia and atresia

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The management of microtia and atresia has evolved significantly. Ossama Abdelhamid and Amr Abdelhamid explain how a multidisciplinary approach has become standard, with the aim of delivering individualised assessment and intervention that should target functional, structural, cosmetic and psychological aspects...