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Benefit of prolonged voice rest following phonosurgery

1 September 2015 | | benign laryngeal lesions, phonosurgery, voice rest
The recommendation for voice rest following surgery is not agreed amongst surgeons, regarding either the type of voice rest (absolute or relative) or the optimal duration. In this ongoing study, 31 elective patients operated on for benign laryngeal lesions were...
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Oxford Case Histories in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Mr Kristijonas Milinis and his co-editors have collected a broad range of cases from consultants across the UK and overseas in producing this latest case-based discussion series published by Oxford University Press. The book is divided into five chapters covering...

Grading dysphagia as a toxicity in treating head and neck cancer

1 September 2018 | | Clinical trials, Deglutition and deglutition disorders, Head and neck cancer, Toxicity grading
Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) is a system used by clinicians to grade the toxicity of oncology treatments in a standardised manner. Dysphagia is perhaps the most common long-term toxicity of head and neck cancer treatment. Currently, a...
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Swallow toxicity score (DIGEST) and its clinical utility in oncology practice

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The Dynamic Imaging Grade of Swallowing Toxicity (DIGEST, graded from 0–4) was developed as a tool for clinicians to grade dysphagia from modified barium swallow studies (MBSS). The purpose is to provide a common terminology for adverse events of pharyngeal...

Hearing Care, cognitive decline and dementia: A public health challenge, or an opportunity for healthy ageing?

22 October 2019
Brian Lamb, OBE and Sue Archbold PhD, Hon LLD A new document from The Ear Foundation, launched at European Association of Cochlear Implant Users (EURO-CIU) annual general meeting in Poland, reviews the latest evidence on the association between hearing loss,...

ENT in this issue...Anaesthetics and ENT

1 November 2019 |
Nick Crombie, BMedSci BMBS FRCA FIMC RCSEd RCPathME, Associate Medical Director (Governance); Consultant Trauma Anaesthetist; Honorary Researcher, National Institute for Health Research SRMRC: Clinical Lead for Resuscitation Services, QEHB, UK. E: Nicholas.Crombie@uhb.nhs.uk Plastic surgeons think we do endless crosswords. Orthopaedic...

ENT in this issue...BACO 2020

1 January 2020 |
Emma Stapleton, MBChB, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant Otolaryngologist, Cochlear Implant and Skull Base Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. E: emmastapleton@doctors.org.uk Twitter: @otolaryngolofox Are you going to BACO?” was the question on everyone’s lips. The year was 2006, I was a junior...

ENT in this issue...Entrepreneurs and Innovation

2 November 2020 |
Innovation has been the by-word of almost every meeting for the past five years. But what is it really? And how do we achieve it? I’ve always thought of it as a way of solving problems you have, not only...

First ever World Report on Hearing

11 February 2021
With less than three weeks to go, the countdown has begun to the launch of the first ever World Report on Hearing on World Hearing Day, 3 March 2021. Through the global launch of the report, WHO intends to reach,...

ENT In this issue...Robotics in Head and Neck Surgery

4 November 2021
Robotic surgery is here to stay. Within the specialty of otolaryngology, robotics has made headway across all of the subspecialties, although some advances may still be at the pre-clinical stage. The clinical applications are most acutely evident in the practice of head and neck cancer surgery, specifically transoral robotic surgery (TORS).

Globe trotter: Vasant Oswal launches memoir

2 June 2022
Vasant Oswal was brought up in an era when public transport in India relied on horses. From humble beginnings in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, he went on to become a pioneer in laser surgery in the larynx. He would also receive a Fellowship by Election at the Royal College of Surgeons, not to mention serving as Editor in Chief of ENT and Audiology News.

Independent lab tests and rates hearing aids

5 February 2023
HearAdvisor is a new audio testing lab designed to understand how the performance of hearing aids differs.