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“Oh Manchester is Wonderful”...And other chants you might hear from the football stands or at BACO

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Chris Potter is a lad of the North West, and we see him here letting his bleach blond hair grow out to show us his Northern roots. When I was a lad, Manchester was a troubled city in apparent terminal...

The curse of Sports Illustrated

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
“Not a supernatural curse, but a basic statistical concept of blinding simplicity.” What is ‘regression to the mean’? I am reliably informed that our former North American colonies publish a periodical known as Sports Illustrated (note, incidentally, the characteristically incorrect...

Where ART meets Science: A unifying story in ENT & Audiology News

1 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
We are delighted to introduce a stunning new cover series by Dyon Scheijen, a Maastricht-based clinical physicist-audiologist and artist fascinated by the psychology of hearing. Dyon explores the connection between audiology, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and sound perception. He...

The sound of music for adult cochlear implant recipients

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Dr Valerie Looi has dedicated her academic career to investigating music perception in people who have cochlear implants, and more recently, the potential of music training for improving their music perception. This article outlines current research relating to music perception...

Music is noise

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Marshall Chasin recaps what we know acoustically about music and noise, and discusses the potentially damaging levels of music, how temporary threshold shift (TTS) is not necessarily temporary and gives us some considerations for protective devices for musicians. Most of...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO) and balloon dilatation under a local anaesthesia

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Many of us are becoming more and more familiar with the use of transnasal oesophagoscopy. It has a number of well-described uses in the outpatient setting and is well tolerated by our patients. Yakubu Karagama describes taking this technique a...

Pre-clinical development of magnetic delivery of therapy to middle and inner ears

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Why are we developing this technology? A key problem in drug delivery is getting the therapy to the right place in the body, which is especially challenging for targets that are small, deep and are protected or surrounded by anatomical...

Nuclear heads – and necks

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Imaging of the extra-cranial head and neck is challenging due to the anatomic complexity of the region. CT, MRI and ultrasonography (US) are amongst the most frequently utilised radiological modalities in head and neck imaging but do not always provide...

Imaging and management of head and neck vascular anomalies

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Vascular anomalies are a diffuse spectrum of abnormalities which often involve the head, neck and oral cavity. They are frequently misnamed, often being generically labelled as haemangiomas. This lack of basic understanding can cause confusion leading to a cascade of...

BSO Annual Meeting & Juniors Day

14 March 2024 -15 March 2024 | ENTA - ENT, Otology
Irene Benaran (left), ENT CDF and Noah Evans Harding (right), ENT ST4, University Hospital Monklands, Lanarkshire, UK. The theme of this year's British Society of Otology (BSO) annual meeting was ‘The Past, Present and Future of Otology’. To introduce aspiring...

Partial reconstruction of the pinna

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - Otology
Reconstruction of the pinna is one of the most challenging procedures in facial plastic surgery. Although there has been significant progress since one of the earliest recorded descriptions by Sushruta in 600 BC, the complex three-dimensional structure of the pinna...

The ‘bus stop’ incision for bone-anchored hearing aid placement: a step-by-step approach to soft tissue preparation

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
There have been many descriptions of soft tissue preparation in the era when subcutaneous tissue was routinely removed with the Nijmegen technique [1] or with the dermatome [2]. More descriptions continue to evolve with the advent of tissue preservation techniques,...