Leanne Hamilton and Louise Clark describe their technique for helping to localise parathyoid adenomas. Surgically this can be difficult, so careful preoperative evaluation using imaging as described can help minimise difficulties intraoperatively when identifying the parathyroid adenoma. Preoperative imaging has...
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,...
WENTS UK is delighted that so many colleagues have joined the ENT UK mentoring programme, run by WENTS (Women in ENT Surgery) and open to all genders. They now have 134 active participants, including all grades from medical students to...
John Noel Gleave Evans DLO FRCS, formerly consultant otolaryngologist to St Thomas’ Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, died peacefully at home on 27 March 2022 at the age of 87.
Fiona Kukiewicz, Clinical Scientist (Audiology), Head of Clinical Services MED-EL UK & Ireland. The British Society of Audiology Scientific Meeting was a showcase for high quality research, development and service improvement. It was a chance for special interest groups (SIGs)...
The 5th World Congress on Endoscopic Ear Surgery, held on June 20-21, 2024, the first of such a meeting in South America, showcased the latest advancements in endoscopic ear surgery (EES).
The 66th Hallpike Symposium took place on the 15th November 2024. It was organised by Drs Carolyn Ainsworth and Rosa Crunkhorn, Audiovestibular Medicine (AVM) Consultants at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. The theme of the event was ‘Recognising systemic conditions associated with audiovestibular dysfunction for the practicing clinician’.
In February, nearly three hundred delegates gathered in the snow-covered city of Burgas on the Black Sea coast for the 7th annual congress of the Bulgarian Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Ed’s choice explores a systematic review examining one of the recent innovations in head and neck surgery. It may come as a surprise to some that within a few years of the first published cases of transoral vestibule thyroidectomy, an...
Question1. How do we know that undertaking an operation will benefit a patient? Question 2. How do policy makers / health systems know an operation is effective and ‘good value for money’? As trained professionals, we spend our careers seeking...