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Congenital CMV: investigations and management in the audiology setting

1 July 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the only cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) for which there is a medical treatment available to prevent further hearing loss. Dr Simone Walter discusses cCMV infection, cCMV-related hearing loss, and how to facilitate their...
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Steroid use in acute acoustic trauma

2 September 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology | Acute acoustic trauma, Sensorineural hearing loss, Steroids, Tinnitus.
Acute acoustic trauma (AAT) injuries include noise-induced damage to inner and middle ear presenting as hearing loss, tinnitus and vertigo. Classic presentation is sensorineural hearing loss with an intact tympanic membrane. The authors carried out a case-control study in military...

Comparison between objective and subjective BPPV

1 March 2017 | | Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, canalolithiasis, nystagmus, repositioning manoeuvre
BPPV presentation in ENT clinics is variable. The objective of this study was to examine differences in demographic and clinical features, as well as treatment outcomes, between classic objective BPPV (O-BPPV) and subjective BPPV (S-BPPV). Unlike classic BPPV (with nystagmus),...

Voice issues in transgender individuals

1 September 2015 | | female-to-male transgender, female-to-male transsexual, gender diversity, voice, voice problem, voice treatment
Recently, former decathlete and TV personality, Bruce Jenner, admitted that he is transgender, thereby becoming the most famous and vocal advocate for transgender issues. Transgender refers to female to male or male to female identification. In either case, voice modification...

Extranodal natural killer / T-cell lymphoma in the head and neck

1 September 2014 | | Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, Nasal type
The authors present a retrospective single institution review of patients with a very rare variant of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). They report on the occurrence, clinical course and outcomes of their patients with natural killer / T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) nasal type....
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Is there evidence to support early discharge of patients with tonsillitis, quinsy and epistaxis?

6 September 2021 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Epistaxis, Peritonsillar Abscess, Tonsillitis
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its unprecedented pressures on the NHS, demands changes in the management of common ENT emergencies. In this review article, information has been gleaned from 22 relevant articles on how this can be done. The Portsmouth tonsillitis...
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Is there a need for magnetic resonance imaging six-month post-radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma?

30 April 2020 | | Neurotology, Skull Base Surgery | Vestibular schwannoma, Acoustic neuroma, Stereotactic radiosurgery, Gamma knife, Cost analysis, Health care spending
With advances in imaging and radiation technologies, small, slowly growing vestibular schwannomas (VS) are treated primarily with either observation or stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Routine magnetic resonance (MRI) scans with gadolinium are obtained six months and one year after SRS in...
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Tramadol soaked nasal packs for post-septoplasty analgesia

1 November 2019 | | Rhinology / Sinus | Lidocaine, Nasal packing, Postoperative pain, Septoplasty, Tramadol
Having had a septoplasty a number of years ago for the potential treatment of snoring, I was intrigued by this paper which compared the analgesic effect of tramadol-soaked and lignocaine-soaked nasal packs following septoplasty. In my practice, I have always...

Malignant transformation of leukoplakia in previous cancer patients

10 March 2023 | | Head and Neck | carbon dioxide laser, history, neoplastic cell transformation, oral leukoplakia, oral squamous cell carcinoma
This is a retrospective study from Taiwan assessing risk factors in developing oral squamous cell carcinoma from surgically excised oral leukoplakia in patients with a previous oral cancer, the underlying thought being that patients with an oral carcinoma have a...

What should be considered a ‘close’ margin in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma?

1 May 2018 |
Achieving clear margins during surgical resection in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) is thought to reduce local recurrence (LR) and improve prognosis; however, what constitutes a clear, close, or involved margin is inconsistent in the literature and in practice....

Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss

2 September 2022 | | ENT, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, Otology
The Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss was convened in 2019, and its main report will be published in 2023. We learn more about it here. The Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss was convened in 2019, and was charged by Richard...

International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS): its programmes and impact on head and neck cancer worldwide

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
In the first article of this edition, we introduce IFHNOS, which has created a major impact on the landscape of head and neck cancer treatment and education over the past quarter of a century by offering a global platform amongst...