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In the West of Scotland, what factors impact and what are the survival trends for laryngeal cancer?
4 March 2025
| Gemma Clunie
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ENTA - Head & Neck
The TV and radio presenter Jamie Theakston recently returned to his radio show to announce he is cancer free. He had been off air for a year after having surgery to treat early-stage laryngeal cancer. His diagnosis was made when...
Laryngotracheal stenosis
Airway stenosis has been an enormous challenge to laryngologists since the dawn of the sub-specialty. Careful evaluation is essential, as this will determine the best treatment. We hear more from one of the UK’s leading airway centres. Until the advent...Taking life by the throat
Patients suffering with problems with their voice, airway and/or swallowing can find their symptoms immensely distressing, and their care places a huge burden on healthcare systems. We hear from a world-leading laryngologist on current and future directions. Field of interest...Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan
1 July 2014
| Joseph Brennan
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ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...
Head and Neck Vascular Anomalies: A Practical Case-Based Approach
1 July 2016
| James O’Hara
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ENTA - Head & Neck
I was genuinely delighted when this book arrived for review. Usually I get something on vertigo which props up one end of the book case gathering dust. A quick skim through this instantly told me the section editor had blessed...
Benign oesophageal strictures: overview and management strategies
6 September 2021
| Roganie Govender
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ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
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Endoscopic dilation, Esophageal benign stricture, Stent
Benign oesophageal strictures may have several attributable causes including caustic injuries, long-term acid reflux, eosinophilic oesophagitis, anastomotic strictures and endoscopic therapy. Endoscopic dilation via bougies or balloon dilators may treat most strictures successfully and satisfactorily. However, in some situations treatment...
Corticosteroid prescribing in ENT - are we at risk of being sued?
5 July 2022
| Lucy Dalton
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ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, Neurotology, Otology, Paediatric ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
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adrenal cortex hormones, corticosteroids, jurisprudence, medicolegal, otolaryngology, steroids
Of medications leading to malpractice claims, corticosteroids comprise the third most common. They are used widely and have a significant side-effect profile: hypertension, lipodystrophy, diabetes, avascular necrosis of the femoral head, peptic ulceration and psychiatric reactions to name but a...
Immunosuppresants and ototoxicity
5 July 2022
| Wai Sum Cho
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Otology
There is a wide range of immunosuppressant drugs ranging from calcineurin inhibitors (e.g. cyclosporine), anti-folic agents (e.g. methotrexate) to anti-TNF and monoclonal antibodies, many of which could be ototoxic. The authors performed a systematic review assessing ototoxicity secondary to immunosuppressant...
Balloon eustachian tuboplasty and inferior turbinectomy
6 January 2023
| Sunil Sharma
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Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
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Balloon Eustachian tuboplasty, inferior turbinectomy, obstructive Eustachian tube dysfunction, nasal obstruction, Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Questionnaire-7
This Taiwanese prospective case-control study looked at concurrent inferior turbinectomy (via submucosal turbinectomy) and balloon eustachian tuboplasty on symptoms related to eustachian tube dysfunction. A total of 50 patients who underwent inferior turbinectomy with balloon eustachian tuboplasty were recruited prospectively...
Multiple surgeries for RRP – does a greater number of operations result in a worse voice outcome?
7 January 2021
| Christopher Burgess
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ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
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Acoustics, Auditory-perceptual, Multiple surgeries, Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, Voice
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) of the larynx remains a challenging condition to treat, with a number of affected patients requiring multiple operations to remove recurrent disease over the course of their lifetime. At the most severe end of the spectrum,...
Does balloon tuboplasty work in the long term, and how can we measure outcomes?
There is much interest and debate at ENT conferences and within current literature about the role of balloon dilatation techniques for Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD), a condition which we still only have limited understanding of, and which can be challenging...Peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic refractory pain
1 September 2019
| Aaron SJ Ferguson
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ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
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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...