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100,000 Genomes Project: in conversation with Tess Lopez

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
For Jul/Aug 2021, ENT & Audiology News features several contributions from the 100,000 Genomes Project, and Tess Lopez very kindly agreed to talk to me about her involvement with the project, as well as sharing her personal experiences of having...

Finding the right balance: remote dizzy patient consultation during a pandemic

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
During the COVID pandemic, all our working patterns have changed. One significant impact had been on the management of outpatient consultations and the increase in telephone consultations and enhanced vetting. In this article the authors share their experience of managing...

Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) - inability to burp: treatment with Botox injection

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
As unusual as it may sound, some people have great difficulty burping. We hear of one approach to tackling this problem. Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) is a condition presenting with inability to burp, resulting in gaseous distension of the digestive...

Transnasal oesphagoscopy

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this useful and practical article, the authors describe their use of transnasal oesophagoscopy, including the range of clinical scenarios in which it is used. What is TNO? Transnasal oesphagoscopy (TNO) is a technique that can be used in the...

Ultrasonic bone aspirators for internal auditory meatus ‘drilling’ in retrosigmoid vestibular schwannoma resection

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
In this article, the authors describe the retrosigmoid approach to a vestibular schwannoma, using an ultrasonic bone aspirator as an alternative to the standard drill. Vestibular schwannomas (VS) are benign, usually slow-growing tumours of the vestibular nerve. Management of VS...

Current practice in cochlear implantation

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Otology
From candidacy to surgery and rehabilitation, cochlear implant practice is evolving, with new technologies shaping outcomes for patients worldwide. Image courtesy of MED-EL. Cochlear implants restore a sense of hearing in the profoundly deaf, representing the most successful neuroprostheses available,...

The role of the multidisciplinary team in laryngology and airway – the Charing Cross experience

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
As the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, the Charing Cross laryngology MDT provides expert care to patients with airway problems as well as voice and swallowing disorders. In this article, the team explain their raison d’etre and why the MDT...

The development of endoscopic sinus surgery – a meeting of three great minds

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The story of the development of endoscopic sinus surgery is inextricably linked with the names of Stammberger, Messerklinger and Storz. Karl Storz’s daughter, Sybill Storz, tells us more. We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation of...

Professor Heinz Stammberger’s pioneering contribution and legacy in the field of FESS

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
It is no exaggeration to say that functional endoscopic sinus surgery would not exist in its current form without Heinz Stammberger. Prof Valerie Lund traces the development of this relatively recent surgical technique. In the early 1980s, a happy combination...

What’s happened since the European position paper on nose and sinus tumours?

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The management of malignant sinonasal tumours has gone through radical changes in recent years. Prof Valerie Lund gives us an update based on her upcoming talk at IFOS. In 2010 when we published the European position paper on ‘endoscopic management...

In conversation with Professor Patrick Gullane: My life in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Fellowship RCSEng 2009. Patrick, as you have recently ‘stepped down’ as Chairman and Chief of ORL-HNS at Toronto General Hospital, what next? Firstly, so often I have been asked why I selected this career path, from a quote by Johnny...

Planes, trams, and auditoriums: Beware predatory conferencing

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - General
Predatory conferences are a growing concern. First highlighted in our sister magazine, Eye News*, the issue affects all areas of medicine – including ENT and audiology. With inboxes filling up with flattering invitations to ‘global’ meetings in glamorous destinations, it’s...