Journal Reviews

Treatment of incus lysis with hydroxyapatite bone cement

27 February 2020 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, Otology | Hydroxyapatite bone cement, Long process of the incus, Revision, Vibrant soundbridge

Middle ear implants provide a suitable alternative for some patients with a certain degree of sensorineural or mixed hearing loss, not wanting a hearing aid. Vibrant SounBridge® (VSB) middle ear implant (MEI), of Med-El®firm, is one such implant. In this...

Learning from reimplantation

27 February 2020 | | Otology | Cochlear implant, Device failure, Explantation, Hard failure, Re-implantation, Revision cochlear implant, Soft failure

The Irish implant centre in Dublin undertook a retrospective study of their reimplantation cases to look at what lessons could be learnt. Device failures fall into two classes: hard and soft failures. Hard failures are implant malfunction or altered performance....

Differences between paediatric and adult cholesteatomas

1 March 2019 | | Otology | Adult, Children, Cholesteatoma, Post-operative complications, Revision Surgery, Treatment Outcome

An understanding of the differences between adult and paediatric cholesteatomas should be helpful in more effective management of the disease in children. In this study, the authors focused their comparison between paediatric and adult cholesteatomas to the operative findings, rates...

Playing hide and seek with parathyroid glands

1 March 2017 | | Hyperparathyroidism, Recurrence, Revision surgery

This article focuses on revision surgery with respect to parathyroid glands. Clearly the stakes are higher with respect to the patients’ risks, but also with respect to the revision surgeon in finding the offending gland in scar tissue, where someone...