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BAPO Annual Meeting 2024

19 September 2024 -20 September 2024 | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Paediatric ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Head & Neck
Chong Yi Kang, Paediatric ENT Fellow, Evelina London Children's Hospitaland Kate Hamlett, ST6 ENT Registrar North West Deanery The 2024 BAPO Annual Meeting saw the best turnout of paediatric ENT professionals from across the globe, reflecting the extensive scope and...

Medical and surgical management of performing vocalists

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Dr Steven Zeitels is widely recognised as the foremost laryngologist of his generation. He has been at the forefront of innovation for 25 years, and has treated innumerable high-profile singers, most recently Sam Smith and Adele. Here, he gives us...

Changing perceptions in head and neck cancer management caused by quality of life issues

1 September 2010 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Sir Felix Semon was an outstanding clinician and exceptional laryngologist. The money raised by donations from his colleagues on his retirement in 1909 was used to establish the London University’s Semon Lecture. Semon’s Obituary in the BMJ, reads: “In Semon's...

Genetic research on hereditary hearing loss and clinical application in the Chinese population

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Congenital deafness in China affects more people than the entire population of Australia. Prof Wang give us a comprehensive insight into one of the main congenital disabilities in China, looking into the causes of deafness and the benefits of genetic...

Teenagers with misophonia

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Misophonia can be a distressing condition for teenagers and can have devastating effects upon their home and school lives. There is little research in this area and, as Lucy Partridge explains, more is greatly needed in order to identify interventions...

The role of the multidisciplinary team in laryngology and airway – the Charing Cross experience

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
As the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, the Charing Cross laryngology MDT provides expert care to patients with airway problems as well as voice and swallowing disorders. In this article, the team explain their raison d’etre and why the MDT...

Musical hallucinations and audiology

3 September 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Many of us will have been stuck with an ‘earworm’ for a day but consider how it would be to have that earworm stuck on repeat, possibly forever. Drs Lauw, Blom and Coebergh review the current literature on musical hallucinations...

‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

Are you ready? How audiologists’ readiness for change relates to the implementation of remote care

7 January 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Are we ready to deliver remote care? A question many of us have asked ourselves over the last year. Danielle Glista (Associate Professor, Western University) and colleagues talk through a systematic approach to implementing remote audiological care and suggest gaps...

Adjoin™ bone conduction system

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Otology
Patrik Westerkull (PW), Otorix AB, and Ann-Louise McDermott (A-LM), ENT Consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, tell us about the Adjoin bone conduction device, a non-surgical bone-conduction option developed by Otorix. They explain how the product works, the background to the...

History of photography in otorhinolaryngology in the 19th Century

1 September 2015 | | ENTA-ENT
In this final article of the History of ENT edition, João Clode introduces us to the history of medical photography in the 19th century, giving us some fascinating early examples of otorhinolaryngology photographs. Medical photography – the early years The...

Thyroid ultrasound elastography: does nodule stiffness predict malignancy?

1 May 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Approximately 50% of the general population has a thyroid nodule while 5-15% of these are malignant [1]. A major challenge, therefore, is how to detect the malignant nodules for appropriate, timely treatment and avoid unnecessary, costly investigations for the remainder....