Richard (Wei Chern) Gan

ENT Skull Base Fellow

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Latest Contribution

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery journal cover image.

Global incidence of sporadic vestibular schwannoma

3 November 2022 | | Skull Base Surgery | acoustic neuroma, epidemiology, incidence, population-based studies, prevalence, review, sporadic, unilateral, vestibular schwannoma

The incidence rate of sporadic vestibular schwannoma (VS) has commonly been quoted as one in 100,000. However, since the advent of screening for asymmetrical hearing loss and increased availability of modern MRI scanning, more recent studies have shown the incidence...

Clinical Practice Guideline on Tympanostomy Tube in Children Update (AAO-HNS)

3 May 2022 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Paediatric ENT | developmental delay disorders, grommets, middle ear effusion, otitis media, otorrhea, pediatric otolaryngology, tympanostomy tubes

The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation’s ‘Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children (Update)’ has been recently published - an update of the original 2013 guideline. This article forms an executive summary to accompany the full guideline....

Continuous Ambulatory Vestibular Assessment (CAVA)

2 March 2022 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Neurotology, Otology | Ménière’s disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, dizziness, migraine, nystagmus, vestibular diseases

This article presents initial test findings using a novel system called CAVA - Continuous Ambulatory Vestibular Assessment. Akin to the 24-hour ECG tape to identify cardiac arrhythmias, this system aims to continuously monitor the presence of a nystagmus pattern in...