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Coupler microvascular anastomoses: how good?

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery | Anastomosis, Computational modelling, Coupled, Coupler, Microvascular, Sutured
This paper is written by a group of reconstructive surgeons and a school of computing. The study used computational fluid dynamics to model blood flow through idealised sutured and coupled vessels, to investigate if differing anastomotic techniques affect intravascular blood...

Pediatric Ear Diseases: Diagnostic Imaging Atlas and Case Reports

1 May 2015 |
This book has been painstakingly compiled to produce a detailed atlas of high resolution CT images of the paediatric temporal bone. The five chapters over 160 pages and 242 high quality figures are very well structured and thoughtfully laid out....
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The Female Voice

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The title of this book is enough to intrigue anyone with an interest in voice, be it laryngologists, speech and language therapists or professional voice users. The text does not disappoint; Jean Abitbol takes us through a fascinating tour of...

Paediatric salivary gland tumours

1 September 2015 | | Hemangioma, Pediatric ear/nose/throat, Pediatric tumors head and neck, minor salivary glands
This is a review article of a rare group of neoplasms that frequently present as painless preauricular mass in older children. There is a wide differential including first branchial arch abnormalities, inflammatory and granulomatous processes. Those masses that are painless,...

Salivary duct clipping for drooling

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Head & Neck
Drooling can be a challenging problem to manage in paediatric ENT. The variety of medical and surgical treatments suggests that there is no gold standard treatment. Nicola Stobbs and Ravi Thevasagayam describe an approach to ligating the salivary ducts. Drooling...
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Can we predict risk of adverse events preoperatively in patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery?

27 February 2020 | | ENTA-Head & Neck
Ed’s Choice reviews a paper aiming to create a reliable index to predict postoperative outcomes in head and neck cancer patients. This interesting study identifies variables that may assist in risk assessing prospective surgical candidates. There have been a few...

Audiological monitoring in ototoxicity - Are we doing enough?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
In this article Ghada Al-Malky explores the dichotomy of life-saving, yet hearing loss-causing medication, and questions whether the hearing healthcare community is doing enough to prevent preventable hearing loss. Ototoxicity is the damage to hearing and / or balance functions...

Video otology tutorials: how EES changes the game

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
High definition endoscopic ear surgery (EES) redefines traditional middle ear anatomical perspectives. The surgeon can observe in situ anatomical relationships with angled objectives in a way that the traditional microscopic view, with step-wise removal of structures is unable to achieve....

Barotrauma

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Barotrauma is an injury which is due to the effects of pressure upon an air-containing space. Healthy middle ear cavities and paranasal sinuses are normally in equilibrium with the atmospheric pressure, but if an individual moves away from the surface,...

St Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, patron saint of the nose

4 March 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Stories of the saints are often rather dark and unpleasant – and this is certainly the case with St Æbbe, as we hear from our roving historian, John Riddington Young. In two previous articles, we have discovered the fascinating stories...

By the people, for the people: a multidisciplinary facial nerve clinic with a difference

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
Facial nerve palsy is regularly seen in ENT clinics. Underlying diagnoses are excluded, and the patient is often then discharged to ‘see how it goes’, with or without an ophthalmology referral. Here, Catherine Meller describes how she and her team...

Using telehealth to engage teenagers

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Can we use a teenager’s love of gadgets to re-engage them with their hearing technology? Gwen Carr reports on an innovative use of telehealth to support teenagers who are no longer visiting their hearing healthcare professionals. Parents of children and...