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Use of a diode laser for the removal of a frontal sinus osteoma

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In this How I Do It, Professor Sergei Karpischenko introduces a gentle method of reduction of mobilised frontal sinus osteoma which has been successfully used in five patients in his university clinic using a diode laser in contact mode. Osteoma...

Audiovestibular findings in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is reported to affect up to 15% of the paediatric population with sensorineural hearing loss. Devin McCaslin and Bridget Smith provide an up-to-date overview of the mechanisms and clinical symptoms underlying the condition and share some of...

OBITUARY: Jack Katz

11 August 2025 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Jack Katz. With deep respect and admiration, we remember Jack Katz as a towering figure in the field of audiology whose influence has left an indelible mark on generations of clinicians, educators, and researchers. Dr Katz’s passing is a profound...

Developing an Innovation for ENT – from Idea to Market: how ‘e-i’ did it

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Background endoscope-i (e-i) Ltd was incorporated into Companies House on December 3rd, 2012 following eight months of developing our first project, a simple iPhone adapter for endoscopes. Of the three founding shareholders, two are ENT surgeons and one a lecturer...

In conversation with Prof Metin Önerci

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Prof Valerie Lund caught up with friend and colleague, Prof Dr Metin Önerci, to discuss his various positions in rhinology, the FOAM programme with which he is involved, and rhinology in Turkey and the Balkan and the Central Asian region....

MedAudPro: a united front for audiology

19 September 2022
For the past three years, the Network of Medical Audiology Professionals has been bringing together ENT providers in the USA. Co-founder and President, Patricia Ramos talks about her ambitions for the organisation.

2020 Unmasked - By Paul Howard Surridge

2 April 2021 |
Throughout human existence, metaphorical masks have been worn to conceal emotional and physical imperfections, whether imagined or real. We mask the way we look; we mask the way we feel. We’re vulnerable creatures, psychologically wired to present socially acceptable characteristics...

In conversation with Emma Stapleton, winner of the Hunter Doig Medal 2022

3 June 2023
The Hunter Doig Medal is awarded once every two years to a female Fellow or Member of the Royal College of the Surgeons of Edinburgh who has demonstrated outstanding career potential and ambition. The medal is named after two female surgeons, Alice Headwards-Hunter and Caroline Doig.

Exploring the role of oral microbiota in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Oral microbiota, especially Fusobacterium nucleatum, may improve survival and guide personalised treatment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a devastating disease with a low five-year survival rate that has shown little...

Monstrous craws and horrid butchery: a concise history of thyroid surgery

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Prior to the foundation of our speciality, thyroid surgery had a dubious reputation and universally dismal outcomes. Jenny Walton casts a critical eye over this dark chapter. Diseases of the thyroid gland have been referenced in historic texts for well...

RSM ‘Otology Dragon’s Den’

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The Royal Society of Medicine Otology Section recently held an ‘Otology Dragon’s Den’ event. Following on from our interview with Professor Gerry O’Donoghue, RSM Otology Section President, in the run-up to this event, we interviewed Steve Broomfield, Consultant Otologist in...

Selective upper airway stimulation

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is one of the most common diseases in industrialised countries and is characterised by an intermittent obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. The standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which...