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Confederation of European ORL Societies - your society!

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Per Cayé-Thomasen is a professor of otology and skull base surgery in Copenhagen. In Milan, he succeeded Cem Meco as the president of the CEORL-HNS. Under his presidency, the confederation has continued to develop its educational activities and encourage professional...

7th Scottish International Head and Neck Conference

14 September 2024 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Amy Campbell, ST5 Otorhinolaryngology at Ninewells Hospital in DundeeThis year’s Scottish International Head and Neck Conference was an example of a truly successful hybrid course. It was hosted by the conference chair, Jai Manick, and co-organiser Omar Hilmi, and in...

A soprano’s demise: a cautionary tale for the thyroid surgeon

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
Prior to the mid-19th century, thyroid surgery was considered excessively dangerous. The emergence of anaesthetic, antisepsis and improved instrumentation, however, increased its feasibility and frequency in Europe. The unhurried, judiciously antiseptic and haemostatic approach, advocated by Kocher, was popularised and...

2020 Unmasked: The unmasking of a masked society - By Rele Ologunde

2 April 2021 |
The year 2020 will be embossed in the archives of history and be remembered like none other before it. The dialogue will largely be centred upon the COVID-19 pandemic, the varied response to it by governments across the world and...

OBITUARY: Professor Vittorio Colletti (1943–2024)

24 January 2024 |
After a long illness, Professor Vittorio Colletti, born in 1943, passed away on 2 January 2024 at the age of 80.

AUDIOLOGY - In conversation with Chris Mennan: A patient’s perspective on 
single-sided deafness

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Chris Mennan is a retired policeman and started working as an Audiology Technical Officer at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust in 2012. In this article he speaks to ENT and Audiology News Features Editor, Alex Griffiths-Brown, about his...

A woman in a man’s world

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Being one of the few women professors of surgery in the world for most of my career inevitably led to some amusing situations. When I was first invited to the Middle East in the 1990s, I accepted primarily to see...

Anxiety and acronyms – musings of an otolaryngologist

7 July 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Personal protective equipment (PPE) has been a focus of attention and concern for healthcare workers around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neil Tolley discusses some of the issues. I write this article in mid-May when, were it not for...

Current management of unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannoma

10 March 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular schwannoma is the commonest tumour of the cerebellopontine angle (80%) and accounts for around 8% of all intracranial tumours. The commonest primary presenting symptoms are audio vestibular. Hearing health professionals are often the first contact for patients with potential symptoms of vestibular schwannoma, with the majority then being seen and diagnosed by otorhinolaryngologists.

Current Trends in Implantation Otology

7 September 2023 -8 September 2023
Priya Achar, Consultant Neurotologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK. Stalwarts in the field of implantation otology, including surgeons and audiovestibular scientists from the UK, Europe and the USA, attended this academic feast. Organised by Professor Laura Viani (below...

Birmingham 2020 – think big, think BACO

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
When Richard Irving and Ann-Louise McDermott made their successful bid to host BACO 2020 in Birmingham, they knew it had far more going for it than the International Conference Centre! Lucy Dalton tells us a little more about the attractions...

The outer ear in the visual arts

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
The ear is an exceptional organ, and quite rightly takes its place in the visual arts, as described by Albert Mudry, who takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the appearance of the ear and its depictions in art throughout...