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Transoral Laser Microsurgery of Benign and Malignant Lesions book cover image.

Transoral Laser Microsurgery of Benign and Malignant Lesions

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Published in 2016, this is a textbook that I have cited and recommended in a number of talks on transoral laser microsurgery (TLM). The content and layout is very similar to that of Steiner and Ambrosch’s Endoscopic Laser Surgery of...
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Swallowing outcomes following partial laryngectomy: objective assessment and pre-operative predictive factors

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Otology
Partial laryngectomy constitutes one of the treatments for early stage glottic carcinoma (i.e. T1N0 and T2N0) in specialised centres. Over the years, several partial laryngectomy and reconstruction techniques have been described in the literature. The choice of technique depends on...
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Smartphone hearing test

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric | Hearing loss, mass screening, mobile applications, sensitivity and specificity
Our Editors’ Choice for this edition reviews an article looking at the use of a smartphone app for hearing screening. We have all had to integrate telehealth into our practice to some extent recently and this paper examines a teleaudiology...
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Reduction in recurrent cholesteatoma rates with bony obliteration tympanoplasty technique

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
This large retrospective study from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam compares outcomes in traditional canal wall up (CWU) and canal wall down (CWD +/- partial obliteration of mastoid bowl) mastoid surgery for cholesteatoma with bony obliteration tympanoplasty (BOT, which...
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Outcomes of office-based biopsies for laryngopharyngeal carcinoma – faster diagnoses and equivalent oncological outcomes as compared to biopsies under general anaesthesia

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Patients in the UK with head and neck cancers are the most likely to face long waits to treatment in comparison to other cancer sites, with only just over half commencing treatment within 62 days of being referred on a...

Measuring client-centred outcomes in audiology: towards a parsimonious solution

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
From an international driver to the client-centred care model; in this article Anthony Hogan explores outcome measures for individual goal setting and measuring those outcomes. Introduction When people present for hearing help, they are typically looking for solutions to the...

Audiovestibular findings in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is reported to affect up to 15% of the paediatric population with sensorineural hearing loss. Devin McCaslin and Bridget Smith provide an up-to-date overview of the mechanisms and clinical symptoms underlying the condition and share some of...

Operating room fires in head and neck surgery: risk factors, prevention and management

7 May 2026 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics
Could your next head and neck surgery spark a fire? BACO 2026 paediatric keynote speaker, Soham Roy, explains how understanding risk factors and prevention is key to patient and OR team safety. Operating room fires are an uncommon but potentially...

Biologic therapies for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: a new paradigm

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Surgery for nasal polyposis has evolved significantly in the last 30 years, and now the medical management may be on the cusp of a revolution. Biologics using monoclonal antibodies to target specific immune pathways have introduced a paradigm shift in...

Vocal cord dysfunction and dysfunctional breathing: an evolving clinical paradigm

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Patients frequently present to the ENT department with breathing difficulties. The entity of ‘vocal cord dysfunction’ (also known as paradoxical vocal cord movement, inducible laryngeal obstruction, and many other names) is increasingly well recognised. Ravi Thevasagayam gives us an overview....

CI Advocacy in Action

9 May 2024 -10 May 2024 | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Is this a world record for the most people with cochlear implants at a conference? Helen Cullington, University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. I was lucky enough to go to the first ever global conference held by the Cochlear Implant...

Frederik Dikkers: championing change in laryngology

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Prof Dikkers shares the details of his journey into ENT surgery, his dedication to treating laryngeal papillomatosis, and his pioneering advancements in button battery safety. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is one of the most frustrating conditions managed by laryngologists. There...