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Eustachian tube dysfunction usually improves following endoscopic sinus surgery

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus | eustachian tube dysfunction, ETDQ-7, rhinosinusitis, endoscopic sinus surgery
This study investigated effects of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) on eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) and factors associated with improvement. This was a retrospective study which included 302 patients over 17 years old who underwent ESS between 1 December 2016 and...
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Transmastoid facial nerve decompression for persistent traumatic facial nerve paralysis

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Otology
Facial nerve paralysis (FNP) can occur following trauma, with a small number of these patients requiring facial nerve decompression (FND) to aid recovery. The authors shared their experience in decompressing the facial nerve for persistent severe FNP via a transmastoid...
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How to improve olfaction and enhance quality of life after laryngectomy

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Total laryngectomy diverts airflow away from the nose and, hence, olfaction is greatly impaired. Undoubtedly, this affects quality of life in terms of loss of taste and flavour. Surgery and devices to re-establish airflow into the nose can be difficult...
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Postoperative ultrasound surveillance in patients undergoing hemithyroidectomy

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Otology
Hemithyroidectomy, as opposed to total thyroidectomy with radioiodine remnant ablation, is now increasingly undertaken for low-risk, differentiated thyroid cancer. If on histology, this proves ‘high risk’, completion thyroidectomy is done fairly soon. In this retrospective study, a total of 105...
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How would you like your cartilage served – diced, crushed or shaved?

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Harvested cartilage can be used to enhance the structural, functional and aesthetic properties of the nose in rhinoplasty. The practice of mechanical fragmentation of harvested cartilage in rhinoplasty is varied with no clear consensus with respect to its indication. This...
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The ACS-NSQIP study – predictive risk factors and outcomes in primary malignant parotid tumour surgery

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Malignant parotid gland tumours occupy a good proportion of the ENT surgeon’s operative caseload. Large standardised datasets for malignant parotid tumour surgery are limited. This international multi-institutional study is based on the pooled American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality...

SCOTLAND preoperative tympanomastoid CT temporal bone mnemonic system

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Imaging
Learning how to interpret a CT scan of the temporal bones can be a daunting task, especially for a head and neck surgeon like me! However, to make life easier, the authors have devised a useful system to help cover...

Mucormycosis: In conversation with Dr Deepak Haldipur and Dr Aditya Moorthy

7 July 2021 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
COVID-19 has ravaged the world in the past 18 months. The second wave in many countries was deadlier than the first. Mucormycosis, infamously labelled ‘the black fungus’ has affected some countries, such as India, in epidemic proportions within this COVID...

Getting It Right First Time in ENT

14 January 2020 | | ENTA - General
Andrew Marshall, a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, visited 126 departments across England before publishing his recent ENT surgery national report for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. Here, he explains how identifying unwarranted...

Laryngology: past, present and future

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Two laryngological authorities trace the history of laryngology, from ancient Rome to the modern day. The structure of the vocal folds was a matter of conjecture until the renaissance when anatomists such as Andreas Vesalius and Julius Casserius demonstrated the...

Endolymphatic sac surgery: controversial procedure for the treatment of Ménière’s disease

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Otology
Landmark Paper: Thomsen J, Bretlau P, Tos M, Johnsen NJ. Ménière’s disease: endolymphatic sac decompression compared with sham (placebo) decompression. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1981;374:820-30. Of all of the chapters in the Landmark Papers book, the chapter that discussed...

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,...