Journal Reviews

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Are there any benefits of postoperative antibiotics after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumours?

5 January 2022 | | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery | Antibiotics, Pituitary adenoma, Pituitary surgery, Quality of life, Sinusitis

This prospective randomised double-blind multicentre study evaluated whether postoperative antibiotics resulted in improvement in sinonasal quality of life (QoL) compared to placebo in patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery. A total of 461 patients were screened for the study...

Recurrent seroma in cochlear implanted patients

1 July 2019 | | Neurotology | Antibiotics, Cochlear Implant, Seroma

Little is known about why some patients experience recurrent seromas over the implant package and in the absence of any cause, antibiotics are frequently prescribed as a precaution to protect the implant from infection. A tertiary referral centre selected five...