Journal Reviews

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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...

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Not as rare as we think? Silent sinus syndrome incidence on CT heads

3 May 2022 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus | computed tomography, enophthalmos, hypoglobus, maxillary sinus, maxillary sinus hypoplasia, retrospective cohort study, silent sinus, silent sinus incidence, sinus radiology, uncinate process

It is relatively uncommon to come across a case of silent sinus syndrome (SSS), but not as rare as the prevalence in the literature might suggest – the authors of this study note that only 100 cases are reported in...

A novel way to reduce postoperative nausea and vomiting

1 January 2019 | | complications, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, incidence, lidocaine, nausea, sphenopalatine ganglion block, vomiting

This is an interesting RCT which evaluates the prophylactic effect of bilateral endoscopic injection of local anaesthetic in the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) on postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). It has a robust design, and is sufficiently powered and blinded, with...

Is the lack of sunshine the reason behind allergic rhinitis?

1 November 2016 | | allergic rhinitis, Children, incidence, prevalence, vitamin D

Deficiency in Vitamin D, an in vogue immunomodulator, has been shown in emerging data to have a substantial pathogenetic role in allergic related diseases, particularly asthma. The concept of a shared upper and lower airway has allowed the natural extrapolation...