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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...

Endoscopic excision of cholesteatoma

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
In this article Vikranth Visvanathan describes an exciting development on the use of endoscopic technology in complex otological practice. Transcanal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES) is rapidly evolving as a recognised method of addressing middle ear and mastoid pathology. Since its...

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...

Tunity: TV streaming using your phone

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Modern advancements in hearing aid technology have helped hearing aid users to hear better in difficult situations. One of these advancements has been wireless technology and accessories, some of which help when hearing aids can’t by bringing the user closer...

Lessons learned from running a national thyroid surgery registry

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
The UK Registry of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgery is now yielding the rewards of meticulous data collection and years of hard work. David Scott-Coombes discusses the advantages and the unintended consequences of their success. The British Association of Endocrine and...

Rehabilitation of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss: bone vs air conduction

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
The re-routing of sound from the deafened ear to the hearing ear has been the mainstay of rehabilitation for SSD for many years. Both hearing aid and bone conduction technology have undergone significant advances over the past decade. This article...

10 steps to improving transition to adult services

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
Children and parents like the reassurance that staying under the care of the team who looked after them from birth gives, but as the child approaches adulthood he / she must come under the care of a new team. This...

Old age is hard to swallow

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
This article takes us through the diagnosis and management of swallowing problems common in older age. As our global population continues to grow and live longer, dysphagia will continue to be a global problem which needs to be recognised, understood...

Inter-professional teamwork and hearing care for older adults with cognitive loss

27 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
There is growing awareness that hearing loss is linked to dementia [1]. The average first-time hearing aid user is about 70 years old. By this age, approximately 1 in 2 people have hearing loss and 1 in 7 have cognitive...

Hearing in middle-age: hearing impairment, tinnitus and hearing aid use in UK adults

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Hearing loss has a well-documented adverse impact on emotional, social and physical well-being. In this article, Dr Piers Dawes from the University of Manchester gives an insight into his team’s recent work analysing the very large UK Biobank data set,...

Dizziness: confusion, issues and considerations

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Douglas L Beck gives his unique take on the difficulties involved in diagnosing dizzy patients and the importance of well-founded research acting as the basis for any diagnosis and treatment decisions. Dizziness. Uh-oh. We really have a very limited understanding...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and the vestibular system: a case study

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
This team of audiologists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre discuss an eight year old with congenital CMV, a neonatal infection which is usually asymptomatic, and provide guidance on how to recognise the signs in the paediatric population, and screen...