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AI reshaping the landscape of head and neck cancer

4 July 2024 | | ENT, Head and Neck
With artificial intelligence set to transform almost every aspect of life, Abishek Mahajan reviews its potential to improve head and neck cancer care. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool in healthcare. In the realm of oncology, AI...

Transoral Laser Microsurgery of Benign and Malignant Lesions

1 March 2019 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Skull Base Surgery
Published in 2016, this is a textbook that I have cited and recommended in a number of talks on transoral laser microsurgery (TLM). The content and layout is very similar to that of Steiner and Ambrosch’s Endoscopic Laser Surgery of...

European Laryngological Society Virtual Meeting 2020

3 July 2020 | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
@2.00pm - 7.00pm (UTC+2)

Bone anchored implant stability predicted one week after implantation

1 November 2015 | | Bone-anchored hearing implant, Children, Osstell measurement, Percutaneous osseointegrated implant, Resonance frequency analysis, Tissue preservation
Bone conduction (BC) devices can now be implanted as a single stage procedure with minimal soft tissue thinning to reduce the complications in the surrounding skin. The question of optimal loading time has to my mind not been answered. Here...
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Peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic refractory pain

1 September 2019 | | Rhinology / Sinus | Chronic pain, Neurosurgery, Pain, Peripheral nerve stimulation
Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) plays an important role in treating chronic refractory pain syndromes that manifest in limited distributions and overlap with areas of neurologic innervation. The process is generally thought to capitalise on the inhibition and activation of pain-related...

Music is noise

1 July 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Marshall Chasin recaps what we know acoustically about music and noise, and discusses the potentially damaging levels of music, how temporary threshold shift (TTS) is not necessarily temporary and gives us some considerations for protective devices for musicians. Most of...

Metformin, the magical solution!

8 January 2024 | | Neurotology
Both noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and vestibular schwannomas (VSs) pose a challenge in terms of management. Metformin was suggested as a potential therapeutic drug for NIHL when the drug-target interaction data was investigated. Additionally, there are studies which demonstrate reduction...
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Videofluoroscopic swallowing studies: balancing risks and benefits

3 July 2023 | | AMD, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Deglutition Disorders, Dysphagia, Frame Rate, Pulse Rate, Radiation Dose, Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Studies
Videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) are an important part of the diagnostic toolkit and arguably the current gold-standard for assessing swallow biomechanics and diagnosing dysphagia. However, the procedure does involve exposure to radiation, and any clinician requesting this should be able...
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Choline PET-CT: an accurate diagnostic tool for the detection of parathyroid adenoma?

7 January 2020 | | Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is an endocrine disorder characterised by an increase in the secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH), with a resulting increase in calcium plasma levels, which can cause renal lithiasis, fractures, and osteoporosis, the most frequent symptoms of the disease....

From the editor SepOct 2021

3 September 2021 |
As the pandemic evolves, the world seems to be divided into those countries that are fortunate enough to have good vaccine coverage and, hence, are able to open up their societies; and those who do not have an adequate vaccine roll-out and are having to live with significant restrictions or high levels of prevalent disease.

Decreased sound tolerance in autism: understanding and distinguishing between hyperacusis, misophonia, and phonophobia

3 May 2022 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Decreased sound tolerance (DST) affects a significant proportion of autistic people throughout their lifetime and, as Zachary J Williams explains, it is important that clinicians are aware of the three distinct subtypes of DST when making a diagnosis. Autism spectrum...

Portable otoscopy image capture devices – a comparative review

1 July 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
The use of photo documentation in ENT clinics is becoming more common as technological advances have made the hardware required more accessible. There is significant variation in the price of products. Daniel Moualed, Olivia Whiteside and Chris Aldren review the...