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Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

Coblation tongue channelling

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
After uvulopalatoplasty, the tendency is to focus on the tongue base as the next anatomical area to address in the management of snoring and sleep-disordered breathing. In this article, Glen Burgess describes the technique of tongue channelling, to reduce the...

Royal Society of Medicine – the year ahead

4 November 2022
Professor Peter Andrews and Professor Manohar Bance look forward to 2022-23.

Physician illness

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Getting in the zone, recognising our personal stress limits and looking after ourselves are vital components in our efforts to stay healthy advises Abbie Lane, after almost a generation of de-stressing others. They say a rugby player like Brian O’Driscoll...

Isshiki Thyroplasty Type 2

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Indication Adductor spasmodic dysphonia is a neurological condition of unknown aetiology. The symptoms are believed to be caused by involuntary contraction of the adductor muscles of the vocal cord as a result of an abnormality of neurotransmitters in the basal...

In conversation with Trevor McGill

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
After more than four decades of paediatric clinical practice, Trevor McGill shares his wealth of experience and knowledge with Pat Bradley. Trevor, as a national and internationally acknowledged Paediatric Oto-Rhino-Laryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon, to what do you owe this...

Detecting cancer margins during robotic head and neck cancer surgery using ambient mass spectrometry

4 November 2021 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
We have known about altered metabolism in cancer cells since Otto Warburg described it 97 years ago. But can we take advantage of this knowledge in curing cancer? Jim Higginson explains the value of smoke generated during cancer surgery. The...

Tonsillectomy in adolescents

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common operations performed across the developed world. Salil Sood and Ray Clarke discuss the special considerations that apply when performing this procedure on adolescent patients. Tonsillitis in teenagers can be exceptionally painful and disruptive....

Endoscopic DCR

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In this interesting article, our experienced colleagues describe their favoured technique for performing endoscopic DCR and share with us the key steps for a successful outcome. Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) was historically performed by ophthalmologists for nasolacrimal obstruction using external techniques. The...

Sustainability guidelines to reduce single-use items in ENT outpatients

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
ENT surgery generates significant waste, with single-use instruments and packaging as key contributors. This article outlines recommendations on sustainable practice that can be adopted into ENT departments. Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health in the...

Roshna Rose Paul: interview between trainee and senior surgeon

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - General
Professor Paul has been heavily involved with training and educating multiple cohorts of ENT trainees over the years, since 2010. In this article, Mr Reid (a current ENT registrar from the West Midlands) picks her brains. Prof Roshna Rose Paul....

Head and neck cancer and PET-CT

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is an imaging technique in which abnormalities of tissue metabolism are precisely superimposed onto the anatomy. It relies on the premise that malignant cells are more metabolically active compared with non-malignant cells. On this basis,...