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A ‘rye’ tail – the fatal illness of Lord Boringdon, a Regency tragedy

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The anonymous privately-printed book, Some Account of Lord Boringdon’s Accident, describes in deferential terms a case of aspiration of a foreign body and its sequelae. Today aspirated foreign bodies are serious but curable injuries; before the invention of the bronchoscope...

From the editor Jul/Aug 2026

3 July 2026
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. TW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk As you read this, we will just be wrapping up our get-together at BACO in Glasgow. The academic programme, organised...

Meeting myself coming back

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - ENT
Sometimes, it can seem like trainers and trainees are separate entities, inhabiting separate worlds, in two separate spheres of experience. However, trainees become trainers, and there is always a period where the trainer has only just stopped being the trainee....
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Show me the video: modelling for behaviour change

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
It is estimated that 2% of people in the United States have autism. The DSM 5th edition defines the autism spectrum diagnosis criteria as when an individual has social communication difficulties, as well as restrictive and repetitive behaviours. One intervention...
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Determinants influencing ageing within the vestibular system

4 March 2026 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
The observation that ageing affects vestibular function is not new. However, using a whole population survey, the authors set out to evaluate quantitatively factors responsible for the age-related changes in vestibular function. As part of a national survey on health...

'If music be the food of love, play on'

1 September 2016 | | ENTA - General
Christopher Aldren Consultant Otolaryngologist, Wexham Park Hospital, UK. Chris playing at Cambridge garden party 2003. Chris with wife and sons Tom and Alex in family quartet. Chris leading the Doctors Orchestra at the Cadogan Hall in London. Christopher Aldren, Consultant...

Ultramarathons, frostbite and running with wolves

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
“I could just keep going when most sane people would stop”- the secret to success in head and neck surgery? In August 2015 I crossed the finish line of La Ultra - The High. A small camp of tents and...

Malignant lesions and reconstruction of the pinna

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Otology
External ear reconstruction can be challenging. Baskaran Ranganathan and Amr Abdelhamid describe how careful assessment, planning and surgery following the subunit principles and reconstructive ladder will ultimately lead to good aesthetic outcomes with restored form and function. The external ear,...

Non-surgical rhinoplasty

1 July 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Some patients would like to alter the appearance of their nose without surgery or make further subtle changes after a rhinoplasty. Lydia Badia explains how this can be done, thanks to the advent of injectable fillers. This medical procedure in...

Global hearing rehabilitation – an SFORL/IFOS collaboration

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
International collaboration is more important than ever, and we hear from Prof Bernard Fraysse about a collaboration that grew out of the very successful IFOS meeting in Paris in 2017. The IFOS meeting in Paris in June 2017 was obviously...

BACO: evolution and modernisation

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - General
Chairing the local organising committee is no small task, but it has a personal connection for Tim Woolford, as he tells us. I attended my first BACO in Manchester as a registrar, and have attended every one since. In July,...

Reduction thyroplasty

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Introduction Male to female transgendered patients are referred to ENT for reduction thyroplasty – a procedure to reduce the external appearance of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, and feminisation of the voice. Reduction thyroplasty, often erroneously called ‘tracheal shave’,...