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In conversation with Professor Gerry O’Donoghue

14 August 2025 | | ENTA - General, ENTA - Auditory Implants
On the occasion of his retirement from the Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme, we discuss his pioneering work in cochlear implantation and the challenges involved. ENT News author picture, 1993. Why did you choose a career in ENT? I started off...
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Salvage surgery vs. repeat stereotactic radiosurgery for progressing vestibular schwannomas

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
This large multicentre case series of patients treated twice with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for progressing vestibular schwannomas (VS) is reported by the International Gamma Knife Radiosurgery consortium. Progression of tumour growth after primary SRS is rare but does occur. Complications...

Hearing loss in the workplace

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
It is probably accurate to say that most jobs today can be effectively performed by people who have hearing loss. In this article Dr Sam Trychin outlines some of the major issues which should be considered in regard to hearing...
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Salivary pepsin – a simple test for LPR?

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Immunochromatography, Laryngeal Diseases, Laryngopharyngeal Reflux, Pepsin, Saliva
A diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) can be made on the basis of characteristic symptoms and nasendoscopy findings. Objective tests exist for this condition; for example, 24-hour dual-channel pH-metry which is considered to be the gold standard. Such tests are,...
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RCT: tongue retaining devices vs CPAP for OSA

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Continuous positive airway pressure, Obstructive sleep apnea, TRD, Thai, Tongue-retaining device
This study compared the effect of a tongue retaining device versus the use of CPAP in 27 patients within a crossover RCT design. Tongue retaining devices (also known as tongue stabilising devices), are similar in appearance to a plastic tongue-sized...

Pharyngocutaneous fistula after total laryngectomy

1 January 2017 |
Pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) after total laryngectomy is a serious complication post-surgery, and can lead to prolonged hospitalisation, adding delays in postoperative chemoradiotherapy. This Turkish retrospective study looked at 166 patients who underwent total laryngectomy for laryngeal cancer, although it is...

Ultrasound assessment of metastatic disease

1 July 2015 |
This Japanese study of 10 patients over 15 years, assesses the role of ultrasonography in assessing metastatic disease to the thyroid gland, specifically renal clear cell carcinoma (RCCC). Whilst uncommon, the authors state that there is a favourable prognosis when...

Preoperative tumour embolisation

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Head & Neck | Carotid body tumor, Embolization, Glomus tumor, Juvenile nasal angiofibroma, Meningioma, NBCA, Onyx, Spinal tumor
This review article analyses the role of preoperative endovascular tumour embolisation in the treatment of a variety of hypervascular head and neck lesions including juvenile nasal angiofibroma, glomus tumour, carotid body tumours, and meningioma. Although the concept of tumour embolisation...

The golden nose – reshaping the nose 100 years ago

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - ENT
Wolf Lűbbers (with the golden nose). Who with a crooked nose would not embrace the chance to go to bed in the evening wearing a surgical device and wake up the following morning with a straight one? And all this...

Rhinoplasty: state-of-the-art

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty surgery has evolved over the years, and Pietro Palma introduces a further new concept. When flicking through the topics of major rhinoplasty meetings, the astute observer will realise that, at present, there are two mainstream schools of rhinoplasty, which...

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...

Enhancing performance and well-being for surgeons: the science of life coaching

3 September 2024 |
Life coaching has emerged as a powerful personal and professional development tool, particularly for individuals navigating high-stakes environments. Life coaching emphasises self-awareness, self-management and self-efficacy, including establishing desired outcomes, goal setting and developing skills and action plans to achieve them....