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IAOO 2025

16 July 2025 -19 July 2025 | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Jason Fleming, Reader/Hon Consultant Head & Neck Surgeon, Liverpool Head and Neck CentreThis July, Liverpool became the beating heart of global oral oncology, welcoming almost 1200 delegates for the 10th World Congress of the International Academy of Oral Oncology (IAOO)....
American Journal of Otolarygology - Head and Neck cover image.

No soup for you…! Early identification of postoperative perforation increases the success of conservative management

1 January 2016 |
Iatrogenic perforation of the hypopharynx or cervical oesophagus is a well-recognised life-threatening complication. Previous studies have demonstrated that conservative management with broad-spectrum antibiotics and withholding oral feeding may avoid morbidity associated with surgical repair. This study addresses when conservative management...

Oropharyngeal malignancies

1 November 2017 | | Cancer, Oropharynx, Surgery, Mandibulotomy, Oncological findings, Functional results
The authors retrospectively reviewed 44 patients who underwent a combined transoral and transcervical treatment without mandibulectomy for oropharyngeal malignancy. The combined approach was performed first by a neck dissection followed by transoral excision of the lesion and reconstruction by a...
Operatives Techniques in Otolaryngology journal cover image.

Clinical assessment in OSA

1 January 2016 | | airway evaluation, airway classification, Müller maneuver, pharyngometry
This paper divides the assessment up into anatomical (nasal and oropharyngeal), endoscopic and imaging. It points out the salient features to look out for in OSA patients with regards the nasal valve and also oropharyngeal anatomy, with tonsil hypertrophy grading...

Postoperative radiation in early stage oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer (OPSCC)

1 September 2018 | | Oropharyngeal carcinoma, T1N1, T2N0, adjuvant radiotherapy, postoperative radiotherapy, survival
There is significant variation in treatment strategies for OPSCC between units. This is largely due to unanswered questions which continue to exist beyond the published literature. We know that human papilloma virus status has a significant influence on prognosis but...
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Active smoking predicts poor outcome in HPV positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Head & Neck | human papillomavirus, oropharyngeal cancer, overall survival, pack-years, smoking status
Tobacco smoking is a well-known risk factor in human papilloma virus (HPV)-negative head and neck squamous cell cancer. Its effects include increased risk of treatment failure, distant metastases and reduced overall survival. HPV has been increasingly implicated as a causative...
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Long-term effectiveness of sleep surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Continuous positive airway pressure, Expansion pharyngoplasty, Obstructive sleep apnea, Polysomnography
n this study, 39 patients from Turkey with obstructive sleep apnoea (of varying severity) underwent an expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty. This operation was devised by Prof Kenny Pang in Singapore and involves using the palatopharyngeus muscle and partly relocating it laterally...

ENT leadership

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Challenges The first challenge is to agree what we mean by the term leadership because there are many different ways in which the term is used. What is, however, a consensus is that the key distinction between leadership and management...

Themistocles Gluck – the true father of laryngectomy

7 May 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Most head and neck surgeons and ENT-specialists may know that the first laryngectomy for cancer was performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873. Billroth´s assistant, Vincenz Czerny, had outlined the operation in experimental surgery on dogs in 1870. Three years...

6th ENT Masterclass® China

28 March 2025 -29 March 2025 | ENTA - ENT
The 6th ENT MASTERCLASS® CHINA was co-hosted by the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Beijing Friendship Hospital of Capital Medical University and the Audiology Development Foundation of China. Notably, it was the first time the ENT masterclass took place outside of Beijing since its inception in China.

What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...

Robotic surgery for squamous cell cancer: the new frontiers

4 November 2021 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Although the da Vinci platform was FDA approved for early-stage oropharyngeal cancers, the indications have expanded. In this article, John Hardman explains how surgeons, with greater understanding of the strengths and limitations of robotic surgery, have systematically set out to...