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Head & Neck Endocrine Surgery: A Comprehensive Textbook, Surgical, and Video Atlas

2 September 2022 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Head & Neck Endocrine Surgery: A Comprehensive Textbook, Surgical, and Video Atlas is a 500-page textbook covering most aspects of thyroid and parathyroid surgery, edited by Prof David Goldenberg, a head and neck surgical oncologist based in Pennsylvania, USA. It...
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Key topics in Otolaryngology – Third Edition

9 September 2020 | | ENT
Eighteen years after the second edition of Key Topics in Otolaryngology, Nick Roland and his co-editors have published the long-awaited third edition. This concise book has been the friend of the examinee for the last two decades within UK and...
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Endoscopic Approaches to the Parsanasal Sinuses and Skull Base

9 September 2020 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery
This is an excellent book to cover the endoscopic approaches to the paranasal sinuses and skull base with a step-by-step anatomic dissection guide. The editors are a group of eminent skull base otolaryngologists and neurosurgeons in Barcelona, Spain, and they...

Surgery or medicine: when should we stop trying to be conservative?

1 July 2017 |
Although most otolaryngologists would agree that surgery improves the outcomes of patients with CRS when medical treatment has failed, both Cochrane reviews state that there is no proof of improved efficacy of surgery over medicine – however, that was after...
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Indication and timing of electrodiagnostic tests in facial palsy

2 September 2022 | | Head and Neck, Maxillofacial Surgery, Neurotology, Otology | Facial paralysis, Electrodiagnostic testing, Neurophysiologic testing, Electromyography, Electroneuronography
This excellent review describes the benefits and limitations of electrodiagnostic testing for patients with facial paralysis. Tests such as Schirmer, stapedial reflex and electrogustometry have been largely replaced by neurophysiologic tests like nerve excitability test (NET), electroneuronography (ENoG), surface electromyography...

All about velopharyngeal dysfunction

1 November 2016 |
The velopharynx functionally separates the oral from the nasal cavities. Inadequate or abnormal function of this muscular valve affects speech and swallow. Velopharyngeal dysfunction can be subdivided into insufficiency, incompetence and mislearning. This is a review paper and indeed a...

The evidence for various treatments of autoimmune ear disease

1 May 2016 |
The difficulty with this disease entity is that it is a heterogeneous group of conditions affecting the ear and a widely accepted diagnostic criteria does not exist. It is therefore difficult to conduct a well controlled trial and this systematic...

Righting the paralysed lip

1 November 2015 | | Facial nerve, Lower lip paralysis, Marginal branch, Surgical repair
Many surgical procedures that otolaryngologists perform put the facial nerve at risk of injury, a complication that the surgeon and patient fear alike. Unfortunately, injuries to the nerve can and do happen despite adequate precautions, and facial paralysis may be...

Current management of unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannoma

10 March 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Skull Base Surgery, Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular schwannoma is the commonest tumour of the cerebellopontine angle (80%) and accounts for around 8% of all intracranial tumours. The commonest primary presenting symptoms are audio vestibular. Hearing health professionals are often the first contact for patients with potential symptoms of vestibular schwannoma, with the majority then being seen and diagnosed by otorhinolaryngologists.

Multifrequency tympanometry

1 March 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
There are many good reasons to start using multifrequency tympanometry as opposed to a traditional, single 226Hz probe tone. Here, Leigh Martin of Interacoustics discusses the uses and benefits. Tympanometry is a core test in the audiologist’s test battery. In...

Screening for hearing aid fittings – an approach for primary care

14 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Introduction The communication difficulties related to hearing loss can lead to ‘depression, social withdrawal and problems with employment and access to information sources’ [1]. Furthermore, unmanaged hearing loss is associated with dementia, a poorer quality of life, depression, anxiety and...

In conversation with Lucy Carter

1 July 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Sound Seekers is a UK based charity, seeking to help deaf people, particularly children, in the poorest communities in the world. The aim is to work in partnership with local organisations and institutions to ensure we deliver sustainable and cost-effective...