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Dr Marion Pfaender Down
“Dr Marion P Downs, an innovator in the field of paediatric audiology and a tireless advocate for the early identification of hearing loss, passed away on November 13, 2014. During her exemplary career at the University of Colorado Health Sciences...MDT assessment of children and adults with implantable acoustic devices (IADs)
Abi Asher, Clinical Lead for the IAD programme in Cambridge describes how hearing care professionals work together to make the best recommendation for the patient, in turn helping navigate through the various devices now on offer. Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are...
Core or fine needle assessment in lymphadenopathy and salivary gland tumours
1 March 2019
| Stuart Clark
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ENTA - Head & Neck
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cervical lymphadenopathy, core-needle biopsy, salivary gland tumour
This paper from the Republic of Korea analyses 278 patients retrospectively, 112 of which underwent fine need aspiration and 166 core needle biopsies. Eleven patients had indeterminate fine needle aspiration cytology, six of whom had an additional core biopsy. The...
Applying ‘Sal classification’ to parotid cytology to replicate the success of the Thy classification system
1 September 2018
| Aileen Lambert
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Sal classification, fine-needle aspiration biopsy, histopathological diagnosis, parotid gland, parotidectomy
The usefulness of the Thy classification in thyroid gland disease has led to attempts to generate a similar cytology classification for parotid lesions. However, the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology in salivary gland disease is more variable because of the...
The basis of auditory processing disorder: what can we learn from corticals?
5 January 2022
| Robert Nash
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, Paediatric ENT
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Auditory perception, Auditory processing disorder, Child, Cortical auditory evoked potential, Hearing
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a poorly understood, heterogenous and surprisingly common condition. It manifests as a perceptual difficulty in centrally processing auditory information. Diagnosis is usually based on a variety of behavioural tests involving verbal and non-verbal assessments. In...
Basic Fundamentals in Hearing Science
27 February 2020
| Edward C Killan
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The preface to this textbook explains that its inspiration came from an identified need to replace a previously discontinued hearing science textbook authored by Durrant and Lovrinic in 1995. This was an excellent resource that I used throughout my own...
Perspectives on audiology training and education in Canada and New Zealand
1 November 2015
| Marshall Chasin, Amy Arrowsmith
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ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
In this Trainee Matters we look at audiology training in two different locations from around the world, Canada and New Zealand. Marshall Chasin gives us an overview of the education system in Canada, while Amy Arrowsmith explains the history of...
VACANCY: Band 7 Audiology Lead (Deputy Manager), Belfast
1 November 2023
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Recruitment & Personnel
The following job opportunity is now available.
Surgical management of congenital nasal pyriform aperture stenosis
1 May 2014
| Vikranth Visvanathan, DM Wynne, AW Clement, Kim Ah-See (Prof)
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ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Introduction Congenital nasal pyriform aperture stenosis (CNPAS) is a rare cause of neonatal upper airway obstruction which was first described by Douglas in 1952 [1]. The first radiological description of CNPAS was described by Ey et al in 1988 [2]....
Communication Disorders: a combined discipline of audiology and speech and language pathology – the Israeli perspective
1 May 2016
| Liat Kishon-Rabin
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ENTA - ENT
Liat Kishon-Rabin provides an excellent summary of audiology training in Israel, encapsulating the development of audiology services in the country. Readers will be intrigued by the systematic approach taken to its development, and its pairing with speech and language pathology....
Hyposalivation: a review of current and future treatments
8 January 2024
| Sachin Tushar Patel, Ehsan Nawaz, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Zohaib Siddiqui, Keli Dusu
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ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Hyposalivation remains a stubbornly difficult condition to treat, but novel therapies may not be far away. Saliva has many essential functions, including aiding digestion and swallowing, lubrication, maintaining tooth integrity and antibacterial activity. When patients experience reduced saliva production (hyposalivation),...
Central auditory changes in SNHL
1 May 2017
| Robert V Harrison
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Robert Harrison discusses some of the most obvious ways in which cochlear hearing loss has central consequences. It is convenient to classify hearing loss according to the most obvious site of lesion, for example, conductive, cochlear, retro-cochlear, or central hearing...
